The Voices of Teachers-Researchers in the Field of Environmental Education on the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC): Early Childhood Education to Primary School

Abstract: The qualitative research that led to the production of this article aimed to categorize the voices of teachers-researchers in the field of environmental education on the BNCC, through a semi-structured interview and discursive textual analysis of which emerged the following categories: interaction, space and approaches of the BNCC, conceptions about the BNCC, and environmental education in the BNCC. The interviewees’ voices are in line with what the literature says about the criticisms on the BNCC regarding minimum curriculum, superficiality and reduction of critical content, education precariousness and privatization, and market-oriented training. In the context of environmental education, the instrumentalization of the issue and the absence of critical approaches were also emphasized, reinforcing the position that environmental education is used as an element reinforcing a formation focused on neoliberal and meritocratic ideals.