The Graduate Program in Education – Knowledge and Social Inclusion at the Faculty of Education of UFMG (PPGE/UFMG) works in teaching, research and extension to produce knowledge in the field of Education and to train masters and doctors, receiving students from all over Brazil and other countries and in conjunction with various national and international research groups. The current configuration of the PPGE/UFMG is the result of a history of construction since 1971, in which UFMG professors, students and technical-administrative staff participated, committed to overcoming Brazilian social and educational inequalities.
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PROGRAM’S STRUCTURE AND ITS TWO FIELDS OF RESEARCH
The Postgraduate Programme: Knowledge and Social Inclusion in Education is organized around two thematic axes:
Inclusion/exclusion in educational processes;
Education and knowledge.
These axes have a cross-cutting nature, permeate the various research projects of professors and students and show the possibility of double insertion of professors and students in the Program.
The curricular structure of the Master’s and Doctorate courses is based on two fields, the descriptors of which are presented below:
Organization of pedagogical work and development of educational practices. The social, historical and political constitution of educational processes, in and out of school. Relationships between social, cultural and political processes and the organization and development of school and educational practices.
Education and processes of production and socialization of educational knowledge. Processes of knowledge production and their relationship with education inside and outside school. Relationships between social, cultural, political and cognitive processes and the production and acquisition of knowledge by subjects.
The two fields are permeated by the two structuring axes of the Program, and help in the systematic organization of research objects and problems in the educational area. They form the basis of the program’s curricular structure, giving rise to the compulsory subjects that make up the training of masters and doctors.
Developing work in both fields – articulated by the two thematic axes – the Program’s professors and students are organized into lines of research. These lines of research express the different thematic, theoretical and methodological areas in which the Program’s professors and researchers organize their work. It is through them that candidates can apply to join the Program.