“…In the field of curricular policies, several authors argue in favor of applying Bernstein's theory, especially for analyzing power relations, systematizing and understanding the production, distribution and recontextualization of scientific contents present in official documents using the pedagogic device as a theoretical framework. Bernstein's studies question the role of education in the cultural reproduction of class relations, stating that vertical and horizontal instructional and regulatory discourses, the relative autonomy of education, the production and reproduction of pedagogic discourse, the curriculum, pedagogies (visible and invisible), evaluations, restricted and elaborated codes, among other important concepts for efficient (or inefficient) pedagogic practices are ways to exert social control (Al-Ramahi & Davies, 2002;Ball, 1998;Heinzle & Bagnato, 2015;Lopes, 2005;Mainardes & Stremel, 2010;Nascimento, 1998;Neves et al, 2000;Silva et al, 2013;Singh, 2002).…”