The power of the curriculum in the field of natural sciences and their technologies: health at work

Abstract

This work aims to investigate the behavior of the curriculum in the area of ​​Natural Sciences and Its Technologies (CNTs) through Foucault's biopolitics regarding health at work. For this, excerpts were analyzed in the skills of the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) and the Reference Curricular Gaucho do Ensino Médio (RCGEM) associated with health at work. We will make use of Foucauldian understandings of the archive as a theoretical-methodological tool to investigate the discourses, formed by the statements, present in the area of ​​CNTs due to the referred abilities. These skills are experienced through the course established by the curriculum in regulating the students' paths and, consequently, act in the protection and prevention of their health at work. In this universe, we can associate Foucault's discourse on increasing the population's life – making it live, thinking about the existing conditions for maintaining student health at work.