Program Objectives

• To qualify professionals for research and teaching activities, aiming at the advancement of knowledge in the field of Education;
• To stimulate the production of knowledge in the program’s concentration area;
• To encourage historical, sociological, political, and pedagogical investigations of educational processes at regional, state, and national levels;
• To ensure the acquisition of a broad, substantial body of knowledge articulated with the Program’s concentration area and scientific research methods as a basis for studying socio-educational issues;
• To enable continuous reflection, study, questioning, critique, and intervention, fundamental elements for the formation of a researcher.

Professional Profile It is expected that, with these objectives, at the end of the program, the trained professional will present the following profile:

• Critical mastery of knowledge production in the program’s concentration area, as well as investment in their professional practice and training;
• Research attitudes supported by solid knowledge and theoretical-methodological mastery of research approaches in the field of education;
• Investment in significant academic production in the field of education;
• Critical and interventional attitude that contributes to the qualification of public policies and re-signification of educational practices.