New High School in Santa Catarina: implications of the Elective Curricular Component Entrepreneurial Education in the formative process of young people

Abstract

This paper is the result of a study that sought to analyze the implications of the Elective Curricular Component (ECC) Entrepreneurial Education in the formative process of young people in the New High School of a public school in Santa Catarina. The methodology used was historical and dialectical materialism, based on a qualitative, case study approach, with the development of bibliographic and documentary analysis. The aim was to characterize how this CCE was implemented in the selected school, as well as to analyze the understanding of teachers and young people concerning the implications of entrepreneurial education for their education. To this end, the teacher who taught the Entrepreneurial Education CCE and 28 students who took this component were interviewed, creating a listening space for these subjects. The results show that the counter-reform of secondary education has led to the fragmentation and emptying of scientific knowledge and the fragility of training for working-class young people. In this context, entrepreneurship is spreading in the educational sphere, configuring itself as a proposal from capital for training working-class youth, in a discourse that brings together and legitimizes the integration of workers with precarious work, inducing the formation of new subjectivities that meet the demands of capital. Finally, we understand that behind the discourse of the "new" high school, there are old interests in favoring the business community, through public-private partnerships that seek to lead working-class youth to conform, making their education more precarious, while also achieving another goal, of curbing access to higher education.