Master and Doctor Degree Program in Education of University of Uberaba
Presentation
The Post-Graduation Program in Education at the University of Uberaba was created in 1999
and recommended by Capes in 2004, being a pioneer in the institution. It has maintained the
regular offer of admission for new students since its creation. It is aimed at professionals
interested in research in the educational area related to the Program's Research Lines and
education professionals who carry out activities in teaching, pedagogical coordination and
management in different educational spaces and in bodies linked to the educational area.
From it, a stricto sensu a post-graduation culture has been constituted in the institution. In
addition, it has consolidated the University's presence in the educational field, allowing, by
increasing scientific production, fueled by research, a more effective relationship between
teaching, research and extension, radiating new ways of thinking and exercising education in
today's times.
The Post-Graduation Program in Education at the University of Uberaba focuses on Education,
understood as a cultural dimension of contextualized socio-educational processes. It carries out
studies and research on school and non-school educational processes in the light of
philosophical, historical, political, sociological and anthropological approaches to education. In
the same way, training, professionalization of teachers, teaching work and the teaching-learning
process at different levels and modalities of education are of investigative interest.
Concentration area
The program focuses on Education, understood as a social process in which political, historical,
cultural, economic and communicational aspects are articulated. More specifically, the area is
guided by the investigations of school education, action and training of education professionals,
which allows the realization of research projects under the most different theoretical and
methodological approaches, with different approaches and levels of coverage, in order to enable
broad development of research on educational processes and products developed by school or
non-school institutions, and by professionals from different areas.
Research Lines
I LINE: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, TEACHING WORK AND THE TEACHING-
LEARNING PROCESS
Menu: Studies and research on training and professional development, with a view to analyzing
teaching work in its different dimensions, practices and perspectives, in order to understand and
intervene in the teaching-learning processes in different contexts, levels and modalities.
II. LINE: EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES AND THEIR FOUNDATIONS
Menu: Studies and research that have education as an axis, conceived as learning concerning
what is in circulation in different societies, that is, in culture. Education is treated as an area that
seeks its foundations mainly in philosophy, history, sociology, politics and cultural
anthropology, in an interdisciplinary perspective.
