This study falls within the field of Curriculum Studies and examines the contemporary political constitution of school knowledge at high school level in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). From a documentary analysis, we studied the main curriculum documents for High School produced by that state, while emphasizing the recent reform named Polytechnic School. The study is justified by the strategic place of high school on contemporary politics of schooling and the social relevance and academic productivity of investigating the political constitution of school knowledge in Contemporaneity. It takes as a general objective the establishment of a critical diagnosis of the political strategies that regulate the production, selection and distribution of school knowledge in High School in the aforementioned context.
Curriculum Policies; School Knowledge; High School; Rio Grande do Sul
