Educação e Comunicação
Research Line Syllabus
Studies and research that connect education and communication within the scope of pedagogical and cultural practices, both inside and outside schools. Artistic, philosophical, and political approaches aimed at a critical and creative understanding of contemporary education, considering the challenges and possibilities of digital culture. Media education, multiple literacies, and multiliteracies. Technology-mediated education.
Permanent Faculty and Their Research Topics
Andrea Brandão Lapa – 
– Education in Digital Culture. Critical education for citizenship in virtual social spaces.
Daniela Karine Ramos – 
– Cognition, learning, and media. Digital games and education. Digital technologies in teaching and learning processes.
Dulce Márcia Cruz – 
– (Digital and media) literacies and the pedagogy of multiliteracies. Processes, practices of production, and analysis of digital genres. Teacher training for digital media in face-to-face and distance education. Games and education. Languages and narratives in digital culture.
Gilka Elvira Ponzi Girardello – 
– Media and cultural mediations. Communication and children. Narrative, imagination, and languages. Communication theories. Children’s imagination and early years of elementary education.
Jilvania Lima dos Santos Bazzo – 
– Didactics and teacher training for basic education. Education, language, and literature. Teaching and learning in the STS (science, technology, and society) approach.
Juliana Cristina Faggion Bergmann – 
– Education, technology, and teaching materials. Mobile learning and pedagogical resources. Teacher training and media. Foreign language teaching and digital technologies. Pedagogical translation and technology. Arts and media.
Monica Fantin – 
– Media education. Teacher training and digital culture. Multiple languages and education. Children, cinema, and school. Media and technologies in educational contexts. Playful culture and education.
Collaborating Faculty and Their Research Topics
Rogério Santos Pereira – 
– Physical Education, Sports, and Leisure; Media Education; Teacher Training.
Rosely Zen Cerny – 
– Integration of technologies into the curriculum. Digital Information and Communication Technologies: concepts and characteristics. Curriculum: concepts and perspectives. Teacher training and technology integration.
