THE THE SELF-ENTREPRENEURIAL SUBJECT IN THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL

an analysis based on the Minas Gerais curriculum

Abstract

This article aims to analyze self-entrepreneurship in the Minas Gerais curriculum from the perspective of the New High School, established by Law 13.415/2017. Three excerpts from the Reference Curriculum of Minas Gerais (CREM) related to this stage of basic education were selected. This selection was preceded by a search in which entrepreneurship, more specifically self-entrepreneurship, could be traced in the document. The term was taken from the work of Christian Laval and Pierre Dardot, whose understanding was expanded with the development of neoliberalism, following the idea of the "Entrepreneur of the self" in Michel Foucault. The excerpts were analyzed in light of a theoretical framework with a strong tradition of discussing education from a comprehensive perspective, including Technological Professional Education (EPT). The results indicate that the conception of the self-entrepreneurial subject found in the CREM deviates from the epistemological foundations linked to the tradition of EPT by reducing education to the development of the individual to meet labor market demands. Seen as capital, a form of human capital, the individual must indefinitely enhance their value to surpass competition and the instabilities of their environment. In contrast, an education conceived in a comprehensive way, based on the concepts of polytechnic education and omnilateral formation, aims at human emancipation, with work considered as an educational principle. An educational project is advocated that promotes the comprehensive and human development of youth, linking education and work to science, technology, and culture.