Paper short abstract:

Our paper aims at showing how the teaching of lexical and thematic contents has been influenced by the different political and ideological regimes in Angola, notably socialism and democracy. We will work on text textbooks for Lingua Portuguesa in 8th grade.

Paper long abstract:

As a general statement the different States use their ideological structures, namely the political, religious, educational and union-based, as well as the press and other institutions, as a tool for disseminating propaganda and ideological values. Such values are thus meant to frame societies’ world views. Curricular guidelines are hence elaborated having in mind which individuals schools are meant to educate and how to do it under the vision and choices of the dominant class, since it controls or influences all means of ideology creation and dissemination.

According to Althusser (1983:74), "Entre os aparelhos ideológicos do Estado, a escola é o que possui uma estrutura mais engendrada, dispondo de uma quantidade muito grande de tempo de influência sobre os sujeitos."

This paper is therefore based on the hypothesis of school materials being the main instruments for the explicit or implicit spreading of the system’s ideology, in a particular moment and context.

In order to confirm our premise, we will analyze the textbooks mentioned above.