A curriculum pact: the national pact for literacy at proper age and the design of a national common base

ABSTRACT: This study aims to analyze the National Pact for Literacy at Proper Age (PNAIC - Pacto Nacional pela Alfabetização na Idade Certa), identifying it as an initial movement, a part of debate and defense of a National Common Curriculum Base. Such analysis makes it possible to observe arising elements that become supporting arguments for such common base necessity: the right to learn as a qualitative democratization guarantee. I seek to highlight and debate the concepts of curriculum, knowledge and learning that support PNAIC, questioning what it proposes as a pact. Therefore, I defend that curriculum must be understood as articulation/production of signifiers, pointing out its discursive dimension, in dialog with both Homi Bhabha's and Ernesto Laclau's studies. The analysis of the forces that engender senses competition as well as the strategies created to hegemonize a particular sense sets the moto of this research.