Curricular structure

COMPONENT

CH

CREDITS

AMENDMENT

O, E, OL

Basic Education in Brazil

60

4

The constitution of Basic Education in Brazil: conceptions, guiding policies and processes. The organization of the school in the context of the formation of society and the Brazilian state. The public school and the universalization of the right to education.

Mandatory

Research in Education I

45

3

Scientific knowledge. Paradigms of scientific research. Research in education: theoretical contexts and scientific methods. definition of the search object. Research planning: from theme to objectives.

Mandatory

Education Research II

30

3

Theoretical context and inference methods in the construction of the argument. Formulation of the problem, objectives and research questions. The insertion of the researcher in the research field: theoretical and ethical questions. Modes and techniques of investigation in the study of different objects.

Mandatory

State and Public Policies in Education

45

3

State, society and educational policies The relationship between educational policies, productive paradigms and models of economic and political development. Educational reforms, neoliberalism and multilateral agencies. Post-neoliberalism and public policies in Brazil: curricula, training of education and management professionals.

Line Mandatory:

Knowledge, Development and Pedagogical Practices

45

3

Analysis and criticism of knowledge production forms in pedagogical practices. Knowledge as a factor of human development. The production of knowledge as a fundamental pedagogical problem.

Line Mandatory

Educational Management and Innovation

45

3

State configuration and repercussions in the organization of national education. Regulatory milestone of education in Brazil. Management and educational innovation: conceptions, forms and instruments. History and memory of education in the regional context. Innovative experiences in the field of educational management.

Optional

Basic Education Teacher Training

45

3

history of teacher traning in Brazil. Public policies for teacher training and professionalization in the post-reform country of the 1990s. National guidelines for initial and continuing teacher training. Regional context of basic education teacher training.

Optional

School Knowledge Constitution Policies

45

3

Curriculum studies and the problem of knowledge. State, society and the production of school knowledge. Political and economic strategies for school knowledge regulation. Contemporary trends in the constitution of school knowledge in Brazil.

Optional

Social Movements and Popular Education Policies

45

3

Social movements and popular education: historical context, theories, trajectories and experiences. State and popular education policies: propositions and actions.

Optional

Current Issues of Brazilian Educational Policy

45

3

Federative relations and education. Contemporary policies of basic education. Legal system of education in Brazil. Organization and management of educational systems and institutions.

Optional

Education, Environmental Policies and Sustainability

45

3

Dimensions of the global ecological crisis. The environmental crisis and the risk society. Civil society, social movements and environmental education and global governance. Environmental education policies and the school context. Environmental education, citizenship and sustainability.

Optional

Trends in Mathematical Education

45

3

It analyzes historically and critically the emergence and development of Mathematical Education, as a scientific and professional field, in the international and national scenario, as well as the constitution of several trends in Mathematical Education. It contemplates studies and reflections on trends, such as Technologies and Mathematical Education, Mathematical Modeling, Problem Solving, History and Philosophy of Mathematical Education, Educational Psychology, Teacher Training in Mathematical Education, Research in Mathematical Education, Ethnomathematics, among others, and its implications for the teaching of mathematics in basic education.

Optional

Practices in Mathematical Education

45

3

Analysis of teaching processes practiced in elementary school (teaching with textbook, use of teaching materials, lists of exercises etc.). Research on alternative teaching methods to increase/qualify mathematics teaching in basic education. Application of these methods in elementary school classes and analysis of results. Critical analysis of the properties of the proposals presented/applied considering epistemological, didactic, cognitive and cultural aspects.

Optional

Intercultural Education

45

3

It considers the relations between culture, society and education. It refers to theories developed in the context of cultural studies to examine issues related to body, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, class, religion. Therefore, by having education as a cultural process of meaning defined by power relations, we seek to analyze: a) the mechanisms, strategies and policies of constitution of identities, b) the regimes and schemes of representation of different groups, c ) the functioning dynamics of cultural artifacts connected with education; d) the didactic proposal of interculturality for educational practice.

Optional

Teaching-Learning

45

3

Studies about the daily life of the school and the teaching and learning process. Psychopedagogical processes. Teacher training and didactics.

Optional

Inclusive Education

45

3

The historical construction of the concept of disability. The processes of inclusion/exclusion of students with special educational needs in regular education. The development and learning of students with special educational needs in regular school. Specialized care in special education. Support Network

Optional

Vigotski - Freire and the Teaching and Learning Processes

45

13

Vigotski’s school: central principles and concepts. Paulo Freire: conception and method. Dialogues between socio-historical psychology and Freire’s pedagogy: interfaces with the teaching and learning process.

Optional

Language, Cognition and Teaching

45

3

Signal systems created and used by human groups and cognitive organization. Relations among (language), thought modalities and schooling processes. Relations between cultural practices and psychological development. Joint construction of meanings and implications for educational action. Symbolic and pedagogical mediation.

Optional

Science Teaching and Epistemological Bases

45

3

The search for epistemological meaning for science teaching. The role of science education for understanding the world. The relation between science education and citizenship. Historical aspects and current trends of science education research.

Optional