Curriculum Structure

Educação e Teoria do Conhecimento

MASTER'S DEGREE
Syllabus: Theory of knowledge: concepts and meanings; Contemporary theories of knowledge: crisis and critiques; The issue of epistemology in educational theories; Implications of knowledge production in current pedagogical debates.

Teoria e Método na Pesquisa em Educação

MASTER'S DEGREE
Syllabus: Implications of epistemological perspectives in educational research; ethics in educational research; methodological pathway of research; approaches, nature, types, and objectives of research; methods and techniques in educational research; configuration of the research project.

Seminário Avançado I

DOCTORATE
Syllabus: About Education, Pedagogy, and the Production of Knowledge. The subjects of education. School and its educational purposes. Pedagogical thought and its implications for education.

Seminário Avançado II

DOCTORATE
Contemporary theories of education and human development; Anthropology of childhood and youth; Human Sciences and Intercultural Epistemologies.

Gender, Education and Work

Discusses the history of women, gender studies, and major contemporary theories, starting from the feminist movement. It addresses the implications of gender relations in education/school, formal and informal work, in urban and rural contexts, in order to understand the construction/deconstruction of gender inequalities.

Education, Work and Knowledge

Work as an educational principle. Concept of Work. Technology and Work. Work and technology in Pedagogical Activity.

Education in Paulo Freire: Assumptions and Implications

Contextualization of Paulo Freire's thought. Fundamental concepts of Paulo Freire's liberating education. Implications of liberating education in different educational contexts.

Education and Critical Theory

Preliminary concepts of Frankfurt's critical theory: its background; Traditional theory and critical theory of society: connections between education and critical theory; Education, culture, and contemporary cultural formation: contributions to research in the humanities.

Literacy: Foundations and Processes

Writing as a historical and cultural construction of humanity. Foundations of oral and written language: the alphabetic writing system. Literacy processes and their foundations. Concepts of literacy and implications for reading and writing. Theories of knowledge and literacy, as well as theoretical and methodological assumptions for working with reading and writing.

Activity Theory and Teaching Proposal

Activity Theory. Assumptions of Study Activity. Study Activity. Objectives in the teaching system.

Teaching in Higher Education: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations

Historical and conceptual aspects of the university and university teaching; competencies, practices, and knowledge of the university professor; identity and constitution of teaching; institutional evaluation; methodologies and innovation in teaching practice.

Human formation in the society of the spectacle: education, time, and attention

Attention capitalism and the hyper-excited society; algorithmic management of attention and time in the 24/7 society; socio-emotional skills and the formation of the neoliberal subject; spectacle and the autofagous society; the new rationale of the world and the school as a business.

Education, Digital Culture and Technologies

Philosophical issues of Technology and Cybernetics. Cyberculture and Media Education. Learning and knowledge in Digital Culture.

Pathologization in Education

Normality in modern society. The scientific standard of pathology. The pathologization of behaviors. The normal and the pathological in education and the constitution of subjectivity.

School, Democracy, and Latin American Pedagogical Thought

School and Democracy. Latin American Pedagogical Thought. Pedagogical and theoretical trends of Brazilian and Latin American pedagogical thought. Historical and pedagogical references of education in Latin America; Movements and Manifestos of Pedagogical Thought.

Developmental Education and Physical Education

Principles of Organizing Developmental Education. Teaching objects of Physical Education. Content of the teaching objects of Physical Education.

Education and Cultural Identity

Culture: modernity and globalization; Language and the construction of identities: Foreign language and the construction of differences; Portuguese language and the construction of subjectivities; Identity and otherness in school; The curriculum as a construction of subjects.

University and Teacher Education

University as a social institution. University and teacher education. Policies and practices in teacher training.

Teaching Memory and Gender

To explore the interface between teaching work, memory, and gender, based on different theoretical and methodological assumptions with an emphasis on oral history and biographical studies, as well as their contributions to the field of the history of education.

Activity Theory and Historical-Cultural Psychology

Emergence of consciousness. Activity theory in Leontiev and Davidov. Concept formation, Vygotsky. Learning activity, Galperin and Talizina.

Education and Algorithmic Management of Teaching

Algorithm, engagement, and society. Big data, narcissism, and autofagia. Attention capitalism, attention deficit, and the distribution of learning in society. Digital liberalism and education.

Education and the Human Condition

Education and the meaning of being human in contemporary times. The Human Condition in Hannah Arendt. Homo Sacer and the State of Exception of the human condition. Necropolitics. Human condition and democratic education.

Neoliberalism, Education, and the Teaching Profession

Neoliberalism and Education. The Teaching Profession. Precarization and Proletarianization of Teaching Work.

Sociolinguistics and Historical-Cultural Theory: convergences, divergences, and applications

Sociolinguistics and Historical-Cultural Theory: epistemological foundations and theoretical-methodological assumptions. Theoretical concepts related to the conception of language, society, subject, and teaching: verbal interaction, inference, interpretative schemes, social meaning (sense vs meaning), sociocultural relations, intersubjectivity, stylistics, social context, text versus discursive genre, social networks, spheres of human activity, variation, teaching in a dialogical space, learning subjects, diagnosis, planning, and intentionality.

Cultural Identity and Ethnic-Racial Education

Preliminary notions about cultural identity: its conceptual background; Black Cultural Identity: historical and cultural approaches; Stigmas, prejudices, and the issue of racial equality; Approaches to elements of ethnic-racial education: contributions to educational research. Law 10.639/03 and 11.645/08; The school and ethnic and cultural relations

Curriculum and the Production of Subjectivities in Educational Processes

Introduction to curriculum studies. Cultural selection of the curriculum. Curriculum theories. Curriculum and the production of subjectivities.

History of Education and Preservation of Educational Heritage

History and Historiography of Brazilian and Catarinense Education; Cultural Heritage in the History of Education; Educational Heritage, Citizenship, and Education for Heritage; School Culture, Research Sources, and Institutions Custody of School Collections. Basic Concepts of Document Conservation and Preservation.

Preparatory Studies for Internationalization

Preparation for presenting scientific data in oral and poster formats at international events. Skills for debating scientific data in Spanish. Academic encouragement for conducting collaborations and internships in foreign laboratories through technical visits during the master's and doctoral programs.

Linguistic Education: Native and Non-Native Language

Concept of language as: norm, interactive, cultural, identity, variation, change, additional, inclusion. Language and linguistic structure. Language, migration, and refuge. Language and education: implications of language concepts for the theoretical and methodological assumptions of reading and writing instruction.

The Profession of Teaching and the Art of Being and Inhabiting the World

Worldviews; Historical Perspectives; Theoretical Perspective (Cultural-Historical); The Art of Teaching; Identities and Languages (Teacher-Student); Experiences and Memories; Tools and Artifacts (of the Teaching Profession); Books, Films, and Literature; Ways of Being and Existing in the World.

"Don't tell me to be the same": Michel Foucault's challenges to research in Education

Discourse analysis. The truth is of this world. Cognizant subject. Microphysics of power. Genealogy of history. Sexuality apparatus. Governance of the body and the population. Neoliberal governmentality. Micropolitical resistance. Agonistics of the subject a/normal. Aesthetics of existence. Care of the self and life as a work of art. Critique as a practice of freedom. Courage of truth. Saying no to identity. Activism and insurrection.

Educational Work, Education and Society

Education and the mode of production of human existence; Introductory aspects of the relationship between education and contemporary capitalism; Educational work and hegemonic pedagogical conceptions; Work as an educational principle and historically systematized knowledge.

Preparatory studies for internationalization

Preparation for presenting scientific data in oral and poster formats at international conferences. Training skills for discussing scientific data in English. Encouraging students to pursue collaborations and internships in foreign laboratories through technical visits and during their master's/doctoral programs.

Popular Education, Processes of Subjectivation and Critique of Modernity

European modernity. The modern subject. Education in the modern project. Decolonial critique. Popular education and the overcoming of the colonial wound.

Education, Bibliotherapy, and Human Development

Literature and human development. Key theories that support the field of bibliotherapy. The formative potential of literature in various contexts. Implementation of bibliotherapy in the educational context. Literary texts (novels, short stories, poems, songs, plays, memoirs, and essays) with therapeutic potential for use in the classroom.

History and Historiography of Education: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Research

History, History of Education: concepts and approaches. Historiography of education: historical sources and fields of investigation. Research experiences: history of women in education, educational heritage, and school institutions.

Education, Human Rights, and Critical and Decolonial Thinking

Human Rights in their historical, social, and anthropological context; Education "in" and "for" Human Rights; Critical Theories and Decolonial Thinking; Critique of Colonialism, Patriarchy, and Racism; Cultural Diversity and Education; Critical Humanism and Human Emancipation.

Artificial Intelligence: Society, Education, and Knowledge Production

Artificial Intelligence: context, concepts, and systems. Social Implications of Artificial Intelligence. Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Human Development and Knowledge Production.

Neoliberal Pedagogy and Business Rationality in Schooling

Neoliberalism and Education: Concepts and Approaches in the Brazilian Context. Neoliberal Pedagogical Trend: The International Scenario and the Debate in Brazil. Neoliberal Pedagogy and Schooling: The Entrepreneur of Oneself

Afro-Latino-American Feminisms: Contributions to Education

Feminist epistemologies. Critique of gender and the color of science (objectivity, neutrality, rationality, and universality). Gender: a contested concept. Creating spaces for expression: diversity of voices and experiences. Deviant feminisms. Community feminisms. Black feminisms. Indigenous feminisms. Chicano feminisms. African womanism. Amefrican feminisms. Critique of hegemonic feminism: capitalism and colonialism at stake. Engaged education. Feminist pedagogies. Antifeminism and anti-gender agenda. Activist research in education.