IMAGES AND WORDS TO THINK THE SCHOOL: NOTES ON THE SECONDARY EDUCATION REFORM

This article focuses on the teaching of art in High School, with the central aim of analyzing the Provisional Measure no. 746/2016 voted into Law no. 13.415/2017 which altered the LDB no. 9.394/1996. The amendment brought historic setbacks to presence of art within the school curriculum and thus raised fundamental and urgent issues for the debate, such as making education flexible and oriented to the labor market and the weakening of the welfare state. In opposition to the historic achievements of art educators in relation to presence of art at school, the reform of secondary education silenced voices, removed rights and, by devaluing the teaching of art, opened up loopholes for making more precarious both the work of teachers and the possibilities of knowledge that art promotes in education.