“Invisibility and civil registration: guaranteeing access to citizenship in Brazil” is the theme of the writing of the National Secondary Education Examination (Enem) in 2021, according to a publication by the Ministry of Education (MEC), on Twitter, this Sunday (21).
The approach is the same for the modalities of digital or printed proof, and the essay must be handwritten in both cases.
“I see positively the news that the topic of the Enem’s writing still maintains a social perspective and from the point of view of human rights”, reports Doctor in Portuguese Language Rudney Soares, director of Colégio Companhia de Maria, which is located in Sao Paulo.
For the educator, the topic was not obvious to those who prepared the students throughout the year. “I think that not even under the best expectations anyone would think about this topic”. However, to CNN, he analyzes that the possible interference of the government in the test, which is being investigated by the Federal Court of Accounts, was not able to remove the critical quality of the text.
“It is a theme that, in a way, demobilizes that opinion that Enem would be marked by very strong interference from a political point of view. What we see today is that, in fact, Enem maintained its proposal to address socially relevant issues, even though today’s has not been discussed as much in recent years.”
Rudney Soares comments that writing is very important in the exam because writing is a skill that human beings have developed less time ago compared to other forms of communication.
“Writing, unlike speech and other skills that human beings develop throughout their lives, is very recent. It has been a few thousand years since human beings have developed writing as a way of communicating, so we will start from this principle, it is difficult by nature.”
The director also explains that the text provides an assessment of the students’ capacity for reflection and elaboration on various subjects and contents studied.
“Writing, in an exam such as the Enem or other entrance exam, seeks to measure how much the candidates have consolidated their learning in other curricular components. It is in the newsroom that mathematics, geography, history, science, the study of literature, all studies are consolidated”, he argues.
Reference: CNN Brasil
