Education Graduate & Posgraduate Program

Research Line Syllabus

In line with the objectives of the Graduate Program, it develops research, teaching, and extension activities at national and international levels, focusing on the following topics: school and non-school educational processes; childhoods; youth and adulthood; social inequality; violence and education; ethnic-racial and gender relations; environmental issues and education; curriculum theories and policies; children’s and youth literature; teacher training; aesthetics, languages, and technologies.

Permanent Faculty and Their Research Topics

Alaim Souza Neto –  – Curriculum Theories and Policies. Curriculum and Teacher Training. Historical-Critical Pedagogy. Digital Languages and Technologies. Foundations of School Organization and Evaluation. Teaching Reading and Literature.

Eliane Santana Dias Debus –  – Children’s and Youth Literature: production, circulation, and consumption; literary training of teachers; practices of literary reading mediation; public policies for literature books.

Joana Celia dos Passos –  – Pedagogical practices in basic education with emphasis on: curriculum policy, ethnic-racial and gender relations education; teacher training, youth and adult education, and affirmative policies.

Juares da Silva Thiesen –  – Curriculum: curriculum policies and curriculum theory. Organization of school work. Educational and school management. Educational system and the organization of Brazilian education.

Marcelo Gules Borges –  – Pedagogical practices in basic education and non-school spaces; teacher training; environmental issues and education; cultures and anthropology of/in education.

Márcia de Souza Hobold –  – Teacher training (initial and continuing). Teacher training policies. Didactics (teaching practices). Teacher identity and knowledge. Teachers’ working conditions.

Maria Hermínia Lage Fernandes Laffin –  – Youth and Adult Education (YAE). YAE subjects and their constitutive particularities. Epistemological issues and academic production in the field of YAE. YAE, educational policies, pedagogical processes, teaching, and training.

Collaborating Faculty and Their Research Topics

Nelita Bortolotto –  – Bakhtinian Studies. Human sciences and philosophy of language. Epistemology, aesthetics, and ethics. Theories for formal education, social practices, and pedagogical activity. Teacher training. Multiple languages in teaching. Teaching and learning Portuguese language. Literacy and literacy practices.