Education Graduate & Posgraduate Program

Research Line Syllabus

Studies and research on childhood education and the knowledge production process in this area, its specificities in the educational field related to pedagogical practices, teacher training, and educational policies.

Permanent Faculty and Their Research Topics

Angela Maria Scalabrin Coutinho –  – Social and educational inequalities and childhood. Access and provision of Early Childhood Education. Assessment in/of Early Childhood Education. Daycare education.

Cristina Teodoro –  – Childhood and ethnic-racial relations, Childhood and social markers of difference, Anti-racist pedagogical practices, Teacher training for early childhood education and ethnic-racial diversity, Childhood, social and educational relations in Early Childhood Education and intersectionality, Public policies for Early Childhood Education from an anti-racist perspective, Public policies for early childhood education, Social movements and international organizations in post-colonial countries.

Diana Carvalho de Carvalho –  – Epistemological foundations of the relationship between education, childhood, and school; Contributions of Psychology to teacher training for childhood; Processes of playing, teaching, and learning in childhood.

Luciane Maria Schlindwein –  – Educational Psychology, with an emphasis on teaching and learning. Aesthetic development of teachers and students. Teacher training for childhood.

Márcia Buss-Simão –  – Specificities of teaching in early childhood education. The body in the composition of educational-pedagogical relations in early childhood education. Gender relations and childhood.

Patrícia de Moraes Lima –  – Ethnography with children in formal and non-formal educational contexts. Social movements and the network for the protection of children’s rights. Cultures, differences, and Alterity of Childhood.

Simone Vieira de Souza –  – Childhood. Schooling trajectories. Medicalization of school life. Ethics of care and Children’s and Adolescents’ Rights.

Tacyana Karla Gomes Ramos –  – Curriculum, Teaching, and Teacher Training in the context of Early Childhood Education. Languages and development of babies in social and cultural practices of daycare. Investigative methodologies with children.