FUTURITY AND RE-TIMING CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION: FROM BRAZIL’S EDUCATIONAL REFORM TO THE INTERNATIONAL AGENDA

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ABSTRACT: This article examines the connection between education and futurity in the contemporary society. What implications do the changes in our sense of future - increasingly marked by risk and security ideas - have on modernity’s project of progress, the driving force behind modern education? Although the educational institution structure does not seem to have changed drastically, pedagogic practices have become infused with a new set of meanings. As knowledge becomes ever more contingent upon calculationsofthe future, a new rationale comes into place, justifying pedagogical changes, surveillance systems in schools, and national reforms, such as the reform of the secondary school held in Brazil, in 2017. This also creates the demand for a re-timing of school activities, as well as new educational promises for neoliberal international agendas.