Educommunication, an indispensable paradigm for curriculum structure renewal in Brazilian elementary education

Abstract

This article discusses the indispensability of the educommunicative practice for implementing a curriculum reform that considers the demands for a citizen education that focuses on a training for people to exercise their universal right to expression and communication. It aims to analyze the final version of the National Common Curriculum Base (BNCC – Base Nacional Comum Curricular) of the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC), passed in December 2017, observing the nature of the premises that open perspectives for the inclusion of media education as a practice of interest to the educational system. It also recalls the expectation created by the official document, since it predicted the performance, in the school context, of specialized curatorships and mediations to approach topics that still do not have specifically trained teachers. It is understood that this device opens the way for the presence of a specialist in Educommunication in the professional staff of elementary education.