Goals
The Graduate Program in Education at the State University of Campinas is based at the Faculty of Education, which offers courses in Pedagogy, integrated degree in Physics and Chemistry, in addition to offering subjects for all degree courses at the university.
The Postgraduate Program in Education aims to train researchers, teachers and managers at the master's and doctoral level to work, directly or indirectly, at all levels and modalities of the educational system in the country and in Latin American countries. In order to achieve this objective, the program has also offered lato sensu postgraduate courses, specialization modality, in various areas of the educational field, in addition to receiving Brazilian and foreign researchers to carry out their postdoctoral internships, under the supervision of professors. of the program, in direct contact with the research groups.
The PPGE/FE has significant relevance in the national and international scenario, both for the political and theoretical-scientific militancy of its body of researchers, as for its academic production and recognized leadership in the Brazilian and Latin American educational community. It has a strong policy of internationalization, constituting a reference for agreements, exchanges and joint research projects with groups, laboratories and institutions in Brazil, Latin America, Europe, Africa and North America, expressing its excellence as a program postgraduate studies in Education.
History
The Faculty of Education at UNICAMP was established in August 1972, starting its work with the offer of pedagogical subjects, which made up the degree curriculum. In 1974, the Pedagogy course began, with the aim of training teachers for the initial grades of elementary education and qualifying professionals to work in the areas of: School Administration, School Supervision, Educational Guidance, Teaching in Pre-School and Special Education. . In August 1975, the stricto sensu Post-Graduation in Education began to be implemented, with the creation of the Masters in Education course in five areas of concentration, which corresponded to the five departments existing at the time: Philosophy and History of Education; Educational Administration and Supervision; Educational Psychology; Social Sciences Applied to Education; and Teaching Methodology. Later, in 1980, the Doctoral course was created in each of these areas; in 1994, an interdepartmental area in Mathematics Education was created, at master's and doctoral levels.
The Graduate Program in Education, which includes Master's and Doctoral courses, was recognized by the Ministry of Education, Ordinance MEC 1461/95 of November 29, 1995, having been recommended by CAPES in all its assessments.
In June 1998, the Congregation of the Faculty of Education approved a reformulation proposal that included the transformation of departmental concentration areas into eight thematic areas, of an interdisciplinary nature and defining different fields of investigation, bringing together the various research groups with similar interests. . In 2005, a new reformulation transformed the eight thematic areas into six areas of concentration, once again equivalent to the departments that make up the Faculty of Education. As of 2013, a new restructuring of the PPGE created ten lines of research, which became the organizing axes of the Master's and Doctoral courses at PPGE/Unicamp. of theoretical, epistemological and methodological foundations of the research related to the educational field that permeate the themes and approaches of the lines of research.
Line 1: Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching
Line 2: Education and Social Sciences
Line 3: Education and Cultural History
Line 4: Education in Science, Mathematics and Technologies
Line 5: State, Public Policies and Education
Line 6: Philosophy and History of Education
Line 7: Teacher Training and Teaching Work
Line 8: Language and Art in Education
Line 9: Psychology and Education
Line 10: Work and Education
In 2020, the Graduate Commission approved the merger of research lines 1 and 7. This decision resulted from the recognition of the proximity of their research fields, as well as the possibility of deepening theoretical reflection and enhancing the work developed in each one of them. Thus, the PPGE now has 9 lines of research.
Line 1: Work and Education
Line 2: Education and Social Sciences
Line 3: Education and Cultural History
Line 4: Education in Science, Mathematics and Technologies
Line 5: State, Public Policies and Education
Line 6: Philosophy and History of Education
Line 7: Teacher Training, Curriculum, Teaching Work and Assessment
Line 8: Language and Art in Education
Line 9: Psychology and Education
The demand for admission to the FE/Unicamp Graduate Program has been increasing significantly. In the same direction, the number of master's dissertations and doctoral theses has been growing year after year, which attests to the effective expansion of the program. In addition to master's and doctoral courses (stricto sensu graduate courses), specialization courses (lato sensu graduate courses) have been offered to different professionals, in particular to teachers and managers of public schools.