Thematic approach: an analysis of the issues that oriented the choice of themes in the study situation

This study focuses on the Study Situation (SE), curricular modality organized from the approach of themes and demarcated by the cultural historic approach. It is aimed to present and discuss the main aspects considered to choose the themes for the elaboration of SE that are developed at a high school, pointing the criteria adopted for the selection of the thematics. This is a qualitative research, is configured as a Case Study, and it were used as research instruments a questionnaire and semi structured interviews. The analysis of the information was based on the assumptions of the Discursive Textual Analysis, from four analytical categories defined a priori, which are: contextualization, interdisciplinarity, conceptual signification and problematization. It is pointed out that the main criterion to choose the themes for the elaboration of the SE is the conceptual issue, this is, some concepts have guided the choice of the thematics.