Research lines

Research lines and coordinators – (summary table – Postgraduate and Professional Masters): 

            

 

RESEARCH LINES: 

 

1. Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching

Studies and research on curriculum, assessment and teaching in their socio-political-cultural relations in school and non-school contexts.
 

2. Education and Social Sciences
It addresses the social dimension of education from different theoretical and methodological perspectives. The training of researchers and educators in this line of research takes place through interdisciplinary dialogues in different fields and research themes.
 

3. Education and Cultural History
The author develops work from the theoretical and methodological perspective of cultural history and problematizes different objects and themes in the educational field in two dimensions: 1) the school institution with its rhythms, times and spaces, its knowledge and its practices; 2) education as a cultural process that involves the insertion of individuals and groups in different spheres of public life, focusing on investigations in the fields of health, gender and sexuality, different bodily manifestations and representations, the arts, among others. The author also deals with the investigation of education as a manifestation of powers and counterpowers of different institutions and social groups.
 

4. Education in Science, Mathematics and Technologies
It includes studies and research related to: the field of Education in Science, Mathematics and Technologies – understood as cultural practices – from historical, philosophical and sociopolitical perspectives; the different approaches to language in this field; professional, curricular and pedagogical practice development in this field.
 

5. State, Public Policies and Education
Local and (inter)national studies and research on the analysis of public education policies (history, formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies); administration and educational systems, with an emphasis on the relations between State and Society; planning, evaluation, legislation, financing, management and comparative education in basic education at its different levels and stages (early childhood education, elementary education and secondary education), teaching modalities (youth and adult education, distance education and professional education) and higher education; as well as in cultural networks and their forms of organization between civil society and political society (social movements).
 

6. Philosophy and History of Education
It includes studies and research on education, carried out from a historical and philosophical point of view. Preserving the relative autonomy of each of these fields of knowledge, in their plurality, the aim is to articulate knowledge and discussion of education, both in its historical context and in light of its ethical, political and/or epistemological assumptions.
 

7. Teacher Training and Teaching Work
This line of research builds its themes based on the principle of teaching/educating and its implications for teacher training and policies; in the production of knowledge and expertise; in the practices of memories and stories; in teaching work and professionalization, in formal (basic and higher) and non-formal education contexts, from the perspective of education for all.
 

8. Language and Art in Education
Studies and research on the co-relations of Language and Art in different educational contexts, understanding them in their methodological and thematic dimensions. Approach to the multiple aspects through which they are thought and materialized both in practices and in the meanings and perceptions of plurality and interpenetration of languages. Art and Language as powers that produce difference in Education.
 

9. Psychology and Education
Studies on psychological processes involved in educational, social and cultural phenomena with a view to development and learning.
 

10. Work and Education
Studies and research that analyze the relationship between work and education, using as theoretical framework the human and social sciences such as sociology, anthropology, political science, history, economics, social and work psychology. The main objects of study are the relationships between work and education in their multiple dimensions: public policies related to work and education; the social and international division of labor; the labor market and its dynamics; the organization, management and working conditions, as well as the characteristics of employment; moral harassment and bullying; subjectivity, identity and health of workers; training actions that take place in school and non-school spaces; professions and occupations; social movements, work and education; workers; class, gender, ethnicity and generation relations.

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