Education Graduate & Posgraduate Program

Research Line Syllabus

Studies and research encompassing epistemological assumptions of Sociology and/or History of Education, in articulation with the educational field in its multiple approaches, objects, and sources, based on the scrutiny of the following thematic axes: Sociological studies of schools. Institutional education systems. Socialization, training, and school culture. Classes, social and professional identities. Society, literature, and education. History and historiography in educational processes. History of school institutions. History of school subjects. Teaching knowledge, ethnicity, gender, generation, curriculum, and textbooks. Racisms and anti-racisms. Memories. Sociology and history of the body, knowledge, and bodily practices.

Permanent Faculty and Their Research Topics

Ademir Valdir dos Santos –  – History of Brazilian Education. History of School Institutions. Ethnic Schools. Sources: school notebooks, textbooks, press, and pedagogical press.

Alexandre Fernandez Vaz –  – Contemporary social theory. Critical Theory of Society and Education. History and Sociology of bodily practices. Aesthetic experience, formation, and politics.

Amurabi Pereira de Oliveira –  – Sociology and History of Education. Teaching social sciences. Anthropology and education. Ethnography. Sociology and education. Academic field. Diversity, inequality, and education. Brazilian social thought and education.

Elison Antônio Paim –  – Educational experiences in memory and heritage. History teaching. Becoming a teacher. Afro-descendant and indigenous educational experiences.

Fabio Machado Pinto –  – Sociology of education. School inequalities and social inequalities. History and sociology of the body.

Ione Ribeiro Valle –  – Democratization of Education and Social Justice. Schooling movements and training. Institutional contexts and professional socialization.

Jaison José Bassani –  – Critical theory of society and education. Corporeality and schooling processes. History and Sociology of sports and bodily practices.

Victor Julierme Santos da Conceição –  – Complex thinking in studies on work, teacher identity, and school culture; Sociology and history of the body: knowledge and bodily practices; Transdisciplinarity and interculturality in basic and higher education; School Physical Education.

Collaborating Faculty and Their Research Topics

Carolina Fernandes da Silva –  – History and Sociology of sports and bodily practices; History of Physical Education teacher training; History of School Physical Education.

Clarícia Otto –  – Processes of appropriation and representation of historical knowledge in and out of school. History, memory, and power. Religious field and education. Biographies. History taught in the early years of basic education.

Maria das Dores Daros –  – Sociology of education. History of education and the history of intellectuals. State and educational policies. History of teacher training.

Santiago Pich –  – Body, experience, and education. Biopolitics and education. Language(s) and human formation.