Curricular structure

Components

CH

CR

Course Description

O, E, OL

 Research Methodology

60h

4

The field of research and the intervention in Basic Education. Empirical-analytical, phenomenological-hermeneutical, and critical-dialectical approaches. Conception of reality, science, and scientific criteria; the issue of quantity and quality. Scientific knowledge and science. Scientific method; Scientific development and research. Scientific research method. Research ethics. Interconnections between values, moral awareness, social involvement of science, research, professional practice, and social responsibility. 

 Mandatory

Policies, Educational Systems, and Funding of Basic Education

60h

4

Historical retrospective of Brazilian educational politics. Brazilian educational system. Structure and organization of the educational systems. Legal assumptions, structure, and organization of educational systems. Compared education. Educational funding politics in Brazil. Funding for Basic Education. The public administration area: private and public conflicts. Current challenges for Brazilian education.

 Mandatory

Research Seminar

30h

2

Education research. The research and educational practices: From collaborative investigation to the intervention. Project structure and scientific methodology. Socialization and evaluation of the research project.

Mandatory

Dissertation Seminar

90h

6

Discussion of the early stages for executing the research projects of the master candidates. Refinement of the research objects, delimitation of the objectives, definition and/ or reformulation of education methodologies, definitions of theoretical approaches.

Mandatory

Education Methodologies and Didactics

45h

3

The teaching identity in the context of basic education.  School planning. The pedagogical contemporary and classical theories of education. Education methodology in the areas of knowledge (Languages, Humanities, Nature Science and Mathematics). Relation between theory and practice.

Mandatory in Line of Research

Popular Education, Non-Formal Education, and Social Movements

45h

3

History of Popular Education. Conceptions of Popular Education. Social Movements and popular pedagogical processes. Democracy, popular organization, and non-formal education.

Mandatory in Line of Research

Education Professionals: Training and Work

30h

2

The nature of the teaching work. Training and teaching professionalism. References for building identity and teaching professionalism. The relations between school education and society: the Brazilian social context, basic education, and higher education. The pedagogical demands for basic education. The rankings and the common sense showed in the teaching and school practices. Training of reflective teachers.

Elective

Education, Culture, and Society

30h

2

Training of the Brazilian State. State and Social Classes. Cultural and Economic Globalization. Neoliberalism.  Emancipatory Social Projects and Social Movements. Popular Education. 

Elective

Educational Management: Planning of Institutional Development

30h

2

Conceptions of managing the education institutions. Management of basic and higher education. Project of Institutional Development. Process of school management in the context of contemporary society. The managers’ training in educational institutions. Indicators of educational social quality.

Elective

Education, Subjectivity and Everyday Life

30h

2

Sociocultural education. Sociocultural diversity. A culture for the Democratic Coexistence.  Identity: subjectivity and intersubjectivity. Gender issues. Cooperative learning and experiences.

Elective

Principles of the Adult and Youth Education

30h

2

Historical, political and social aspects of the adult and youth education. Conceptions of Adult and Youth Education.  The Education of Adults and Young People, and Popular Education. The spaces and the historical moments for the development of Adult and Youth Education in Brazil. Theoretical and methodological principles in the education and learning process of Adults and Youth Education. Guiding principles of the pedagogical mediation Adult and Youth Education. The work as an educational principle in the educational project of adult and young workers. The curriculum of Adult and Youth Education integrated into professional training.

Elective

Principles of the Full Education in Extended Shift

30h

2

Full education and extended school shift in public schools. The broad fields: pedagogical follow-up; environmental education; sports and leisure; human rights in education; culture and arts; digital culture; health support; media use and communication; investigation in the field of natural sciences and economic education. Didactic-pedagogic and financial resources for the full-time school.

Elective

Principles of the Inclusive Education

30h

2

Education, Inclusion, and Culture. Pedagogy of differences. New paradigms for human relations. Different times and areas for learning. Inclusive education for disabilities.

Elective

Information Technology in Education

30h

2

Information Technologies, Education and Society. On-site and Distance Educational and Virtual Learning Environments. The education and the methodology with different technologies. The teacher training and Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Virtual Learning Networks and Communities. Digital Media. Cooperation x Collaboration. Pedagogical approaches in Distance Education.

Elective

Curriculum Theories

30h

2

Curriculum Theories. Curriculum Conceptualizations. Guiding paradigms of the curriculum construction in education. Culture and curriculum. Theory and Practice: curriculum, planning, and evaluation in the pedagogical action.

Elective