Discourses in the Institutionalization of Spanish Teaching in Niterói/RJ

Abstract

The paper problematizes the curriculum as a space of power and production of subjectivities committed to different basic education projects, starting from the process of institutionalizing the teaching of Spanish in municipal schools of Niterói/RJ - understanding it as a result of discursive conflicts. To this end, the discursive view of language is articulated with the cartographic perspective, in order to map the process of signifying the teaching of a foreign language amidst linguistic and cognitive policies. The analyzes are dedicated to the curricular framework, the textbook and the evaluation and show a clash between visions of (teaching of) language, from structural to utilitarian, aimed at training for the market.