MASTER´S DEGREE
The Graduate Program (Stricto Sensu) – Master’s Degree in Education – lasts two years and is organized in eight three-month terms. During the first year (four terms), students must accomplish all course credits, and on the second year, they must focus on writing their thesis.
The curriculum is supported by a set of mandatory courses focused on providing a general epistemological training and knowledge about theoretical-methodological aspects of research in education specific to each Line of Research. The curriculum also includes three elective courses that focus on specific topics of each Line of Research, connected to problematizations about Learning, Technology and Language in Education; Education, Labor and Empowerment; Culture and Production of Subjects.
DOCTORATE
The Graduate Program (Stricto Sensu) – Doctorate in Education – lasts 48 months. During the first year (four terms), students must accomplish all course credits. The following years are dedicated to activities related to the dissertation. Up to the end of the second year, students must qualify their project, and all courses must be concluded, with a satisfactory performance. The curriculum is supported by a set of mandatory courses focused on providing a general epistemological training and knowledge about theoretical-methodological aspects of research in education specific to each Line of Research. The curriculum also includes three elective courses that focus on specific topics of each Line of Research, connected to problematizations about Learning, Technology and Language in Education; Education, Labor and Empowerment; Culture and Production of Subjects.
Number of Students
The Master´s Degree offers 20 openings every year.
The Doctorate offers 10 openings every year.
Courses
The Graduate Program – Master’s Degree and Doctorate in Education offers three sets of 3-credit mandatory courses.
Master´s General Mandatory Courses
History of Educational Ideas and Knowledge - Systems and educational forms in modernity, considering the Copernican revolution, the establishment of the scientific method and the process of secularization of the world worldview. The production of pedagogic discourse on modernity and aspects related to the nation-state, citizenship and power. Education in postmodernity facing the emergence of interculturalism in the contemporary world.
Education and Philosophy- Possibilities of understanding the world and forms of cognitive, moral and expressive rationality. Modernity, deconstruction of modernity and critique of metaphysics. The linguistic turn of philosophy. Contemporary proposals for overcoming epistemology. Paradigmatic change and implications for science in general and for research in education.
Education, Politics and Citizenship - State, education and citizenship. Conceptions of citizenship. Relations between economy and politics in capitalism. Democracy and construction of man and citizen. Education, civil society and educational policies.
Mandatory Courses for Doctorate
Education and Research in Human Sciences - Human Sciences and research in education. Knowledge and science. Paradigmatic crisis, ethics and its repercussion in education. Different human constitutions. Education as an educational practice.
Research and Elementary Education- Specific research topics in education. Continuing education of teachers. University-community-school relationship. Research and theoretical and didactic production with educational agents.
Mandatory Courses for Lines of Research - common to Master´s Degree and Doctorate
Education and Production of Subjects- Relations between education and subject production processes in modernity. Decentering of the subject in post-modernity and the role of education and culture in the production of subjectivities, identities and differences.
Educational Research and Learning- Research approaches as invention and learning. Repercussions of method and policies about thinking. Language and its dimensions. Research relations, artifacts and technologies in education.
Researches related to Education, Labor and Empowerment- Theory and methodology of research on work, education and emancipation. Problems, concepts, fundamental categories and methodological approaches. State of the art of research on education and work in Brazil. The emancipation problematic in educational research.
Elective Courses for Lines of Research - common to Master´s Degree and Doctorate
Educational Alternatives and Decoloniality of Knowledge- Latin America as a continuous search for alternative in view of the unfulfilled promises of modernity. The historical coloniality of knowledge, power and being. Relations between education and emancipation. Alternative educational experiences and their respective epistemologies.
Education and Language Poetic- Education as a "po (i) ethical" event of language production. Imagination as projective dimension of body action as a language in the world. Formative dimension of human expressiveness and narrative as inventive existence.
Education, Empowerment and Social Memory - Emergence of memory as a social phenomenon and as an object of study in the field of Education and Human Sciences in general. Memory, research in education and different theoretical and methodological approaches. Memory and society: reminding, forgetting and remembering. Documents as a representation of memory. Memory, institutions, power and emancipation relations.
Education: Body, Experience and Spirituality- Studies in education, emphasizing body and experience as elements of learning. Spirituality linked to modes of ethical education and aesthetics.
Research, Education and Cultural Studies - Research from the perspective of cultural studies in education. Cultural artifact analysis in educational research.
Public Policy, Biopolitics and Education- The emergence of biopower and biopolitics in the government of populations. Biopolitics, bare life and state of exception. Public policies as government of life strategy. Public policies and research in education.
Advanced Seminar I- Research topics in education from investigation interest in the line and group of research with emphasis on studies on learning, technology and language.
Advanced Seminar II- Specific topics in education from investigation interest in the line and group of research with emphasis on studies on culture and production of subjects.
Advanced Seminar III- Specific topics in education from investigation interest in the line and group of research with emphasis on studies on work and emancipation.
Advising Activities – common to Master´s Degree and Doctorate
Advising Seminar I- Research in education with emphasis on studies of learning, technology and language.
Advising Seminar II - Research in education with emphasis on studies of culture and production of subjects.
Advising Seminar III- Research in education with emphasis on studies of work and emancipation.
Advising Activities for Master´s Degree
Advising Seminar
Advising Activities for Doctorate
Dissertation Advising - Individual advising. Elaborating and validating the research project. Production and defense of the dissertation in education.
SUPPLEMENTARY ACTIVITY FOR DOCTORATE
Academic Production - Produce and publish an academic article in a qualified education journal. Elaborate and publish a book chapter or complete work in qualified event in the education field.
MASTER´S DEGREE DYNAMICS
Each graduate student must take three (3) general mandatory courses and one (1) mandatory course related to his/her line of research, totalizing twelve (12) credits. Other twelve (12) credits must be taken in elective courses, according to orientation, interest and/or research needs. Students must accomplish a minimum of twenty four (24) credits, and also six (6) credits of advising activities, totalizing a minimum of thirty (30) credits. Courses will take place on Thursdays and Fridays, morning and afternoon shifts, and, eventually, on Thursday nights and Saturday mornings.
SECOND LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
After enrolling for Master’s Degree, students must show they are fluent in one of the following languages: Spanish, English, French, German or Italian – Being fluent in one of these languages is a pre-requisite for presenting the thesis.
DOCTORATE DYNAMICS
Each graduate student must take two (2) general mandatory courses for doctorate and one (1) mandatory course related to his/her line of research, totalizing twelve (9) credits. Other twelve (12) credits must be taken in elective courses from PPGEdu/UNISC (Graduate Program in Education) or other Programs acknowledged by CAPES, according to orientation or research needs; three (3) of these credits can be integrated with writing production. Students must accomplish a minimum of twenty one (21) credits, and also eleven (11) credits of advising activities during the course, totalizing a minimum of thirty-two (32) credits. Courses will take place on Thursdays and Fridays, morning and afternoon shifts, and, eventually, on Thursday nights and Saturday mornings.
SECOND LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Students must proof proficiency in two foreign languages, one language must be proved at the admission and the other one must be taken up to the end of the first year, both following UNISC´s specific Resolution.
