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Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC)

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The Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC), or National Common Curricular Base, is Brazil's national curriculum framework, setting out the essential learning that all students in public and private basic education are entitled to across early childhood education, primary and secondary school. Approved in stages between 2017 and 2018 following a lengthy public consultation, it establishes competencies and learning objectives that state and municipal education systems and individual schools must incorporate into their own curricula.

Facts
Partially Attested
Enacted / Adopted Year
2017 1
This source states approval by the CNE and homologation in December 2017; the entity description notes that approval came in stages between 2017 and 2018.
Key Provision
A normative document for education networks and their public and private institutions, and the mandatory reference for drawing up school curricula and pedagogical proposals for early childhood, primary and secondary education in Brazil. 1
Classification
Policy Type
Curriculum Policy 1
Education Level
Upper Secondary Education (ISCED 3) 1
FAQs

Whose curricula is the Base Nacional Comum Curricular meant to guide?

It is meant to guide the curricula of education systems and networks and the pedagogical proposals of public and private schools.

The official BNCC site says that, as set out in Brazil's national education law (the LDB, Law 9.394 of 1996), the Base is meant to guide the curricula of the education systems and networks of the federal units. It is also meant to guide the pedagogical proposals of all public and private schools of early childhood education.
Sources
1. Base Nacional Comum Curricular (Wikipedia, Portuguese)
  • Terceira versão
    O documento é aprovado pelo CNE e homologado pelo ministro José Mendonça Filho em dezembro de 2017.
  • Opening paragraph
    é um documento normativo para as redes de ensino e suas instituições públicas e privadas, referência obrigatória para elaboração dos currículos escolares e propostas pedagógicas para a educação infantil, ensino fundamental e ensino médio no Brasil.
  • Description, policy-kind classification
    The Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC), or National Common Curricular Base, is Brazil's national curriculum framework, setting out the essential learning that all students in public and private basic education are entitled to across early childhood education, primary and secondary school.
  • Description, education-level classification
    The Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC), or National Common Curricular Base, is Brazil's national curriculum framework, setting out the essential learning that all students in public and private basic education are entitled to across early childhood education, primary and secondary school.
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