Curricular structure of the Master in Teaching - Universidade Estadual do Norte do Paraná

Curriculum structure for students admitted up to the year 2022

Code	Course/ Component Name	Classification	Workload	Credits	OB (Mandatory)	OP (Optional)	Theory	Practice
MPE 001	Methodological Foundations of Research	X	45 h	03	X		X
MPE 002	Teaching Knowledge	X	45 h	03	X		X
MPE 003	Evaluation and Teaching Practice	X	45 h	03	X		X
MPE 004	Qualitative Data Analysis		45 h	03		X	X
MPE 005	Approaches and Methodological Trends in Teaching	X*	45 h	03	X*		X
MPE 006	Learning Theories and Topics in Neuroscience		45 h	03		X	X
MPE 007	Academic Reading and Writing		45 h	03		X	X
MPE 008	Teaching Mediated by Digital Information and Communication Technologies		45 h	03		X	X
MPE 009	Topics in Biology Applied to Health	X*	45 h	03	X*		X
MPE 010	Topics in Mathematics and Physics	X*	45 h	03	X*		X
MPE 011	Topics in Chemistry	X*	45 h	03	X*		X
MPE 012	Special Topics		Variable			X
MPE 013	Topics in Social Technologies	X*	45 h	03	X*		X
MPE 014	Practices for Teaching Natural Sciences		15 h	30 h	03			X
MPE 015	Complementary Activities	X	45 h	03	X
MPE 016	Supervised Teaching Practice	X	45 h	03	X
MPE 017	Master's Thesis I	X	15 h	01	X
MPE 018	Master's Thesis II	X	15 h	01	X
MPE 019	Master's Thesis III	X	15 h	01	X
MPE 020	Master's Thesis IV	X	15 h	01	X
MPE 021	Seminars on Educational Products in Teaching	X*	30 h	15 h	03		X	X
MPE 022	Meaningful Learning in Teaching		45 h	03		X	X
MPE 023	Public Policies for Education: Theoretical Assumptions and Pedagogical Work Organization		45 h	03		X	X
MPE 024	Language in Teaching		45 h	03		X	X
MPE 025	Text Production, Reading, and Teaching	X*	45 h	03	X*		X
MPE 026	Fundamentals of Research in Teaching and Learning		45 h	03		X	X
MPE 027	Financial Education		45 h	03		X	X
MPE 028	Teaching Natural Sciences and Online Experimentation		45 h	03		X	X
MPE 029	Psychology of Learning and Teaching		45 h	03		X	X
MPE 030	Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience		45 h	03		X	X
MPE 031	Orality and Language Teaching		45 h	03		X	X
MPE 032	Literacy Practices		45 h	03		X	X
MPE 033	Innovative Methodologies and Practices in Geography Teaching		45 h	03		X	X
MPE 034	Violence and Bullying in School		45 h	03		X	X

*Each master's student must take at least one mandatory course per area, which should be related to their field of study.

Master's Courses in Teaching

MPE 001 – METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Syllabus: Scientific research in the field of Teaching: foundations and general characteristics. Commonly constructed knowledge versus scientific knowledge. Processes of data collection, validation, and analysis: different parameters and approaches. Ethics in research. Standardization and formatting guidelines for writing articles and projects. Examples and applications.

MPE 002 – TEACHERS’ KNOWLEDGE

Syllabus: Processes of initial and ongoing (in-service) teacher training; Classroom management; Content management; Management of teaching and learning; Didactic-pedagogical structure of lessons; Teachers’ knowledge; Teaching practice.

MPE 003 – ASSESSMENT AND TEACHING PRACTICE

Syllabus: Historical aspects of Educational Assessment. Assessment and Examination. Concept, objectives, and functions of educational assessment. Types and approaches to assessment. Procedures and assessment instruments. Legal aspects of educational assessment in Brazil.

MPE 004 – QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS

Syllabus: Historical overview of Content Analysis (CA) and Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA); Relationship with other sciences and types of research; Concepts and characteristics of each stage; Development and applicability: data collection and analysis of results based on CA and DTA; Validation of the analysis.

MPE 005 – METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES AND TRENDS IN TEACHING

Syllabus: Scientific content and teaching objectives. Methodological approaches and current trends in teaching (theoretical assumptions, procedures, and techniques). Factual, procedural, and attitudinal activities. Analysis and use of textbooks and supplementary teaching materials. Methodological resources for teaching.

MPE 006 – LEARNING THEORIES AND TOPICS IN NEUROSCIENCE

Syllabus: Study of the main learning theories and their epistemological and pedagogical foundations: Piaget’s cognitive development theory; Vygotsky’s theory and social interaction; Ausubel’s meaningful learning theory; Novak’s education theory and Gowin’s teaching/learning model; critical meaningful learning by Marco Antonio Moreira; analysis and relationships of the constitutive elements of teaching and learning processes from an interactionist-constructivist perspective as a possibility of intervention in the educational context. Basics of Neuroscience and the learning process: concepts and types of memory; changes associated with the frontal lobes; implications of different types of memory in the learning process; cognitive functions and learning; disorders, diagnosis, and intervention; reading disorders; dyslexia; writing disorders; dyscalculia; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and their implications in the learning process.

MPE 007 – ACADEMIC READING AND WRITING

Syllabus: Concepts of language, discourse, text, reading, and writing. Academic text. Academic discourse. Planning and production of texts in academia. Reading strategies. Academic text genres. Catalyzing text genres. Construction of meaning in academic texts. Intertextuality and interdiscursivity. Argumentation.

MPE 008 – TEACHING MEDIATED BY DIGITAL INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

Syllabus: Didactic-pedagogical strategies mediated by ICT; Teaching models mediated by ICT (Distance Education: blended learning, online learning, e-learning, mobile learning); Virtual Teaching and Learning Platforms (formal, non-formal, and informal); Digital literacy; Assessment in digital environments.

MPE 009 – TOPICS IN BIOLOGY APPLIED TO HEALTH

Syllabus: Sanitation. Water supply. Waste (garbage). Epidemiology (history, concepts, and objectives). Oral health. Preventive measures. Basics of Microbiology, Parasitology, and Immunology. Population attributes and their relationship with the occurrence of health issues. Study of venomous animals. Family planning. Contraceptive methods.

MPE 010 – TOPICS IN MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS

Syllabus: Modern and contemporary Mathematics and Physics (and their teaching in Basic Education); Historical aspects of the evolution of fundamental concepts of differential and integral calculus; Theory of differential equations and their applications in kinematics; Newton's Laws; Special Theory of Relativity and its teaching in Basic Education.

MPE 011 – TOPICS IN CHEMISTRY

Syllabus: Matter; Solutions; Reaction rates; Chemical equilibrium; Chemical reactions; Radioactivity; Gases.

MPE 012 – SPECIAL TOPICS

Syllabus: Topics selected according to the needs assessed by the Program’s collegiate body, aiming to update students with complementary content to their training and to meet regional demands.

MPE 013 – TOPICS IN SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES

Syllabus: The study of the relationship between Science, Technology, and Society and its implications for teaching. Study of the Critical Theory of Technology and the process of Social Construction. Study of Social Technologies and Alternatives aimed at Basic Education and Higher Education.

MPE 014 – PRACTICES FOR TEACHING NATURAL SCIENCES

Syllabus: Planning activities and preparing teaching materials for Natural Sciences education. The Science Laboratory. Demonstration, experience, and experiment in teaching Natural Sciences. Construction of teaching models. Practical lessons in the classroom and in the laboratory. Care and guidelines for reconstructing historical experiments in science teaching. The importance of diversifying languages, teaching resources, and their application in teaching (experimentation/manipulation of situations and equipment, interpretation of aerial photographs and satellite images, literature, music, and films).

MPE 015 – COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES

Syllabus: Includes the student's participation in research projects, in UENP research groups that promote the student’s development as a researcher; acceptance of articles in journals with Qualis classification in the area (A and B); affiliation of the student to research groups from other universities in Brazil and abroad; attendance at supplementary courses for technical updating; participation in congresses, symposiums, workshops, thematic seminars; presentation of papers at congresses and similar events.

MPE 016 – SUPERVISED TEACHING PRACTICE

Syllabus: On-site monitoring by the advisor of the professional practice of the student in the Professional Master’s Program in Teaching, aiming to understand the workplace of the student and to follow the implementation of technical/didactic production.

MPE 017 – MASTER’S THESIS I
Syllabus: Development of the Master’s Thesis.

MPE 018 – MASTER’S THESIS II
Syllabus: Development of the Master’s Thesis.

MPE 019 – MASTER’S THESIS III
Syllabus: Development of the Master’s Thesis.

MPE 020 – MASTER’S THESIS IV
Syllabus: Development of the Master’s Thesis.

MPE 021 – SEMINARS ON EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS IN TEACHING
Syllabus: Development, analysis, and presentation of educational products.

MPE 022 – MEANINGFUL LEARNING IN TEACHING

Syllabus: Classical meaningful learning; Critical meaningful learning; Language and meaningful learning; Creating learning environments based on meaningful learning; Development of potentially meaningful teaching units.

MPE 023 – PUBLIC POLICIES FOR EDUCATION: THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS AND ORGANIZATION OF PEDAGOGICAL WORK

Syllabus: Basic and Higher Education: public policies and legislation. National Curriculum Guidelines. Organization of pedagogical work in Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Secondary Education, and Higher Education.

MPE 024 – LANGUAGE IN EDUCATION

Syllabus: Language and the world; Philosophy of language; Semiotics; Uses of language in constructivist theories; Language and the formation of concepts in Science and Mathematics.

MPE 025 – TEXT PRODUCTION, READING, AND TEACHING

Syllabus: Concepts of language. Textuality and its construction. Theoretical perspectives on text production and reading. Text genres. Text revision and rewriting. Methodological approaches to teaching reading and text production.

MPE 026 – FOUNDATIONS OF RESEARCH IN TEACHING AND LEARNING

Syllabus: Research in Teaching: foundations and general characteristics; data collection and analysis processes; different approaches. Research ethics. Examples and applications.

MPE 027 – FINANCIAL EDUCATION

Syllabus: Context and relevance of financial education. Conscious consumption and sustainability. National Strategy for Financial Education. Topics related to financial education. Methodology for teaching financial education. Practical applications in the teaching of financial education.

MPE 028 – TEACHING NATURAL SCIENCES AND ONLINE EXPERIMENTATION

Syllabus: Planning of online experimental activities. Teaching materials for Natural Sciences education. Digital media for Natural Sciences teaching. The Science Laboratory. Development of didactic models. Practical classes in the classroom and in the field. Virtual environments for Natural Sciences teaching. Diversification of languages, didactic resources, and their application in teaching.

MPE 029 – PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING AND TEACHING

Syllabus: Analysis and relationships between the constitutive elements of teaching and learning processes in the classroom. Behaviorist and Cognitivist approaches to learning. Study of the main learning theories and their epistemological and pedagogical foundations: Skinner’s Radical Behaviorism; Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology; Historical-Cultural Psychology and the perspectives of Vygotsky and Luria; Meaningful Learning Theory and the perspectives of Ausubel, Novak, Gowin, and Marco Antonio Moreira’s Critical Meaningful Learning; Learning and the Information Processing Model.

MPE 030 – INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Syllabus: Basic concepts of neuroscience. Relationship between the brain, cognitive functions, and learning: intelligence, language, attention, memory, executive functions, emotions, reading, and numerical cognition. Neurodevelopmental disorders: biological bases, characteristics, diagnosis, and intervention.

MPE 031 – ORALITY AND LANGUAGE TEACHING

Syllabus: Studies on Orality. Characteristics of spoken language. Processes of constructing spoken language. Speech and writing. Retextualization. Discursive/textual genres in the speech-writing continuum. Orality and oral genres as curricular content established by legislation. Orality and oral genres in teaching materials. Challenges and possibilities of working with orality in the classroom. Production and listening of oral texts.

MPE 032 – Literacy Studies

Syllabus: Literacy and literacy development. School literacy. Literacies, multiple literacies, new (multi)literacies. Specific literacies: digital, academic-scientific, etc. Relationship between discursive/textual genres and literacies.

MPE 033 – Methodologies and Innovative Practices in Geography Teaching

Syllabus: Geography teaching: historical, epistemological aspects and methodological assumptions. What Geography to teach. Complexities in teaching and learning Geography. Geography teaching, learning, and didactics. New didactic paradigms in the study of Geography. Innovative practices for Geography teaching.

MPE 034 – Violence and Bullying in Schools

Syllabus: Violence. Violence in schools. Violence against teachers. Bullying. The teacher’s role in conflict resolution. Education as a strategy to confront violence. Public space and public life.

Curriculum structure for students admitted from the year 2023 onward

GENERAL COMPULSORY COURSES (DOG)

Code	Course Name	Workload (Theory/Practice)	Credits
DOG 001	Consolidation of Master’s Research Projects and Educational Products	15 / 45	04
DOG 002	Prototyping Laboratory of Master’s Educational Products	15 / 45	04
DOG 003	Consolidation of Doctoral Research Projects and Educational Products I	15 / 45	04
DOG 004	Consolidation of Doctoral Research Projects and Educational Products II	15 / 45	04
DOG 005	Prototyping Laboratory of Doctoral Educational Products I	15 / 45	04
DOG 006	Prototyping Laboratory of Doctoral Educational Products II	15 / 45	04

COMPULSORY TEACHING COURSES (DOE)

Code	Course Name	Workload (Theory/Practice)	Credits
DOE 001	Teaching Knowledge	30 / 0	02
DOE 002	Evaluation and Teaching Practice	30 / 0	02
DOE 003	Applied Axiology in Teaching	30 / 0	02
DOE 004	Approaches and Methodological Trends in Teaching	30 / 0	02
DOE 005	Public Policies for Education: Theoretical Assumptions and Organization of Pedagogical Work in Basic Education	30 / 0	02
DOE 006	Teaching Mediated by Digital Information and Communication Technologies	30 / 0	02
DOE 007	Environmental Education: Teaching, Trends and Challenges	15 / 15	02
DOE 008	Language Uses in Teaching	30 / 0	02
DOE 009	Academic Writing Practices	15 / 15	02
DOE 010	From Literacy to Literacies	15 / 15	02
DOE 011	Psychology of Learning and Teaching	30 / 0	02
DOE 012	Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience for Teaching	30 / 0	02
DOE 013	Violence and Bullying in Schools	30 / 0	02
DOE 014	Innovative Methodologies and Practices in Teaching	30 / 0	02
DOE 015	Multiple Representations for Teaching and Learning Scientific Concepts	30 / 0	02
DOE 016	Dissemination of Knowledge in Teaching	30 / 0	02
DOE 017	Construction of Meaning in Teaching	30 / 0	02

ELECTIVE COURSES (DOP)

Code	Course Name	Workload (Theory/Practice)	Credits
DOP 001	Special Topics	30 / 0	02
DOP 002	Approach of the Three Pedagogical Moments in Science Teaching	30 / 0	02
DOP 003	Mathematical Modeling in Teaching and Learning	30 / 0	02
DOP 004	Teaching Financial Education	30 / 0	02
DOP 005	Practices for Teaching Natural Sciences	15 / 15	02
DOP 006	Reading and Teaching	15 / 15	02
DOP 007	Text Production and Teaching	15 / 15	02
DOP 008	Oral Language and Language Teaching	15 / 15	02
DOP 009	Language in and about Educational Work	15 / 15	02
DOP 010	Historical-Epistemological Approach in Teaching	30 / 0	02
DOP 011	Methodological Foundations of Scientific Research	30 / 0	02
DOP 012	Systematic Literature Review and Systematic Mapping for the Teaching Area	30 / 0	02
DOP 013	Qualitative Analyses I	30 / 0	02
DOP 014	Qualitative Analyses II	30 / 0	02
DOP 015	Learning Difficulties: Cognitive, Pedagogical, and Legal Aspects	30 / 0	02
DOP 016	Teaching Probability and Statistics	30 / 0	02
DOP 017	Topics in Mathematics and Physics	30 / 0	02
DOP 018	Health in the School Environment	30 / 0	02
DOP 019	Scale in Geography Teaching	30 / 0	02
DOP 020	Design Science Research for Educational Product Development	30 / 0	02
DOP 021	Artificial Intelligence and Teaching: Foundations, Technologies, and Practices	30 / 0	02
DOP 022	Computational Thinking	30 / 0	02

COMPULSORY COMPONENTS (COB)

Code	Course Name	Workload (Theory/Practice)	Credits
COB 001	Supervised Teaching Practice - Master’s	0 / 60	04
COB 002	Supervised Teaching Practice - Doctorate I	0 / 60	04
COB 003	Supervised Teaching Practice - Doctorate II	0 / 60	04
COB 004	Complementary Activities - Master’s	0 / 30	02
COB 005	Complementary Activities - Doctorate	0 / 60	04
COB 006	Master’s Thesis I	0 / 30	02
COB 007	Master’s Thesis II	0 / 30	02
COB 008	Master’s Thesis III	0 / 30	02
COB 009	Master’s Thesis IV	0 / 30	02
COB 010	Doctoral Thesis I	0 / 30	02
COB 011	Doctoral Thesis II	0 / 30	02
COB 012	Doctoral Thesis III	0 / 30	02
COB 013	Doctoral Thesis IV	0 / 30	02
COB 014	Doctoral Thesis V	0 / 30	02
COB 015	Doctoral Thesis VI	0 / 30	02
COB 016	Doctoral Thesis VII	0 / 30	02
COB 017	Doctoral Thesis VIII	0 / 30	02

DOG 001 – Consolidation of Master’s Research Projects and Educational Products

Syllabus: Discussion, development, and refinement of the Master’s thesis and educational product projects, aiming at their integration into a theoretical-methodological framework and adaptation to the implementation context(s).

DOG 002 – Master’s Educational Product Prototyping Laboratory

Syllabus: Discussion, development, simulation, and adaptation of the educational product according to the target audience, the research theme/problematic, and the type of educational product.

DOG 003 – Consolidation of Doctoral Research Projects and Educational Products I

Syllabus: Discussion, development, and refinement of the Doctoral thesis and educational product projects, aiming at their integration into a theoretical-methodological framework and adaptation to the implementation context(s).

DOG 004 – Consolidation of Doctoral Research Projects and Educational Products II

DOG 005 – Doctoral Educational Product Prototyping Laboratory I

Syllabus: Discussion, development, simulation, and adaptation of the educational product according to the target audience, the research theme/problematic, and the type of educational product.

DOG 006 – Doctoral Educational Product Prototyping Laboratory II

Syllabus: Discussion, development, simulation, and adaptation of the educational product according to the target audience, the research theme/problematic, and the type of educational product.

Claro! Aqui está a tradução para o inglês das ementas das disciplinas DOE 001 a DOE 017 que você enviou:

DOE 001 – Teacher Knowledge

Syllabus: Initial and continuing (in-service) teacher training processes; Classroom management; Content management; Teaching and learning management; Didactic-pedagogical structure of lessons; Teacher knowledge; Teaching practice.

DOE 002 – Assessment and Teaching Practice

Syllabus: Historical aspects of Educational Assessment. Assessment and Examination. Concept, objectives, and functions of educational assessment. Types and approaches to assessment. Assessment procedures and instruments. Legal aspects of Brazilian educational assessment.

DOE 003 – Axiology Applied to Teaching

Syllabus: Introduction to Value Theory; Ontology and characterization of values; Objectivist and subjectivist axiology; Applications of axiology in teaching; The non-neutrality of teachers and students; Influence of value systems on teaching and learning processes; Relational Pedagogical Axiology and teacher education.

DOE 004 – Approaches and Methodological Trends in Teaching

Syllabus: Scientific content and teaching objectives. Methodological approaches and current trends in teaching (theoretical assumptions, procedures, and techniques). Factual, procedural, and attitudinal activities. Methodological resources for teaching. Technological tools and mediation in teaching.

DOE 005 – Public Policies for Education: Theoretical Assumptions and Organization of Pedagogical Work in Basic Education

Syllabus: Basic Education: public policies and legislation. National Curriculum Guidelines. Organization of pedagogical work in Early Childhood Education, Elementary and High School Education.

DOE 006 – Teaching Mediated by Digital Information and Communication Technologies

Syllabus: Didactic-pedagogical strategies mediated by TDIC; Teaching models mediated by TDIC (Distance Education: blended learning, online learning, e-learning, mobile learning); Virtual Teaching and Learning Platforms (formal, non-formal, and informal); Digital literacy; Assessment in digital environments.

DOE 007 – Environmental Education: Teaching, Trends, and Challenges

Syllabus: Foundations of Environmental Education as a theoretical, scientific, methodological, and applied knowledge area in educational and environmental sciences. Macrotendencies in Environmental Education. Different approaches and methodologies in Environmental Education, especially those dealing with formal teaching. Environmental Education in other subjects of elementary school. Impositions of ecologically sustainable development on Environmental Education. The relationship with teaching and research. Studies on the greenhouse effect, global warming, wildfires, water springs, riparian forests, Guarani Aquifer, photosynthesis, carbon sequestration, deforestation, regional fauna, and production of non-fossil fuels – Ethanol and Biodiesel, water, air, soil, selective waste collection. Non-formal and informal Environmental Education. Critical Environmental Education.

DOE 008 – The Uses of Language in Teaching

Syllabus: Language and the world; Philosophy of language and epistemological conceptions in Education; Semiotic approaches in Science Teaching and Mathematics Education.

DOE 009 – Practices of Academic Writing

Syllabus: Academic-scientific text and discourse. Planning and production of academic-scientific texts. Academic-scientific textual genres. Construction of meaning in academic texts. Comprehension of academic-scientific texts. Production of academic-scientific texts. Linguistic-discursive and prosodic aspects involved in the comprehension and production of academic-scientific texts.

DOE 010 – From Literacy to Literacies

Syllabus: Literacy and literacies. Relationship between discursive/textual genres and literacies. Expansion of the literacy concept. Literacies in specific contexts. School literacy. Literacy projects. Review of the literacy concept based on contemporary multiliterate practices.

DOE 011 – Psychology of Learning and Teaching

Syllabus: Analysis and relationships of constituent elements of teaching and learning processes in the classroom. Behavioral and Cognitive approaches to learning. Study of main learning theories and their epistemological and pedagogical assumptions: Skinner’s Radical Behaviorism; Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology; Historical-Cultural Psychology and the perspectives of Vygotsky and Luria; Meaningful Learning Theory and perspectives of Ausubel, Novak, Gowin, and Marco Antonio Moreira’s critical meaningful learning; Learning and Information Processing Model.

DOE 012 – Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience for Teaching

Syllabus: Basic notions of Neuroscience. Relationship between the brain, cognitive functions, and learning: intelligence, language, attention, memory, executive functions, emotions, reading, and numerical cognition. Neurodevelopmental disorders: biological bases, characteristics, and teaching and learning processes.

DOE 013 – Violence and Bullying in School

Syllabus: Violence. Violence in school. Violence against teachers. Bullying. The teacher’s role in conflict resolution. Education as a strategy to face violence. Public space and public life.

DOE 014 – Innovative Methodologies and Practices in Teaching

Syllabus: Complexities in teaching and learning. The innovative teacher. Evolution of educational paradigms and new pedagogical trends. Innovative methodologies and practices in teaching.

DOE 015 – Multiple Representations for Teaching and Learning Scientific Concepts

Syllabus: Representations and language (verbal and nonverbal). Multimodal and multiple representations and their relation to the learning of scientific concepts. Pedagogical functions of multiple representations. Discussion of published research on this topic.

DOE 016 – Dissemination of Knowledge in Teaching

Syllabus: Communication of knowledge and the process of innovation diffusion in teaching. Barriers and strategies for structuring and transferring knowledge in teaching. Main types of scientific documents and their components. Exploration of different channels for scientific dissemination and technical-technological production. Resources for selecting the medium of knowledge dissemination in teaching. The process of publication in scientific journals and the main dissemination media for technical-technological production. Good practices in research and knowledge dissemination.

DOE 017 – Construction of Meaning in Teaching

Syllabus: Processes of meaning construction in teaching based on Epistemology, Semiotics, and Didactics. Analysis of didactic mediation in interdisciplinary contexts considering language, symbolic systems, and interaction among teacher, student, and content. Discussion of pedagogical strategies and development of educational products that promote meaning construction in different knowledge areas and teaching levels.

DOP 001 – SPECIAL TOPICS

Syllabus: Topics chosen according to the needs assessed by the Program Committee, aiming to update students on complementary content to their training and to meet regional demands.

DOP 002 – APPROACH TO THE THREE PEDAGOGICAL MOMENTS IN SCIENCE TEACHING

Syllabus: Science teaching and its challenges. First Pedagogical Moment. Second Pedagogical Moment. Third Pedagogical Moment. Tools for science teaching. School, curricula, and Science Programming.

DOP 003 – MATHEMATICAL MODELING IN TEACHING AND LEARNING

Syllabus: Perspectives on Mathematical Modeling in Mathematics Education. Mathematical Modeling in early schooling, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School, High School, and Higher Education. Analysis of mathematical models and their corresponding mathematical content. Mathematical Modeling in different knowledge areas.

DOP 004 – TEACHING FINANCIAL EDUCATION

Syllabus: Context and relevance of financial education. Conscious consumption and sustainability. National Strategy for Financial Education. Topics related to Financial Education. Methodology for teaching Financial Education. Practices applied to the teaching of financial education.

DOP 005 – PRACTICES FOR TEACHING NATURAL SCIENCES

Syllabus: Planning activities and preparing teaching materials for Natural Sciences education. The Science Laboratory. Care and safety in practical classes. Demonstration, experience, and experiment in Natural Sciences teaching. Construction of teaching models. Practical classes in the classroom and in the laboratory. Care and guidelines for reconstructing historical experiments in science teaching. The importance of diversifying languages, teaching resources, and their application in teaching (experimentation/manipulation of situations and equipment, interpretation of aerial photos and satellite images, literature, music, and films). The use of physical and virtual games for teaching.

DOP 006 – READING AND TEACHING

Syllabus: Definition of reading; conceptions of reading and teaching reading; relationship between discourse genre conceptions and reading; processes and strategies for teaching reading; methodology for ordering and sequencing reading questions.

DOP 007 – TEXT PRODUCTION AND TEACHING

Syllabus: Theoretical perspectives on text production. Discourse/text genre as an object/instrument of teaching. Revision and rewriting of texts. Methodology of didactic sequences of genres.

DOP 008 – ORALITY AND LANGUAGE TEACHING

Syllabus: Age and oral genres in social practices. Relationship between speech and writing, orality and literacy. Speech-writing continuum. Orality and oral tradition genres in teaching. Orality, oral genres, and teacher training. Experiences of teaching orality in the classroom. Orality and oral genres in textbooks. Teaching orality in official documents.

DOP 009 – LANGUAGE IN AND ABOUT EDUCATIONAL WORK

Syllabus: Work and educational action. Genres of teaching activity. Didactic gestures. Tools for generating data in research on teaching activity.

DOP 010 – HISTORICAL-EPISTEMOLOGICAL APPROACH IN TEACHING

Syllabus: Nature of scientific knowledge; science and pseudoscience; relationship between scientific, school, and everyday knowledge; historical-epistemological approach as a methodological research procedure; historical-epistemological approach as a methodological teaching procedure.

DOP 011 – METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Bibliography: Scientific research in the area of Teaching: foundations and general characteristics. Commonly constructed knowledge and scientific knowledge. Processes of data collection, validation, and analysis: different parameters and approaches. Ethics in research. Standardization and formatting for writing articles and projects. Examples and applications.

DOP 012 – SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW AND SYSTEMATIC MAPPING FOR THE TEACHING AREA

Syllabus: Concept of Systematic Literature Review and Systematic Mapping; Presentation of systematic review and mapping protocols; Protocols for identifying and evaluating studies; Phases of the processes of a review and a mapping.

DOP 013 – QUALITATIVE ANALYSES I

Syllabus: Introduction to qualitative analyses. Textual analysis. Content analysis. Examples and applications in teaching and learning situations.

DOP 014 – QUALITATIVE ANALYSES II

Syllabus: Fundamentals of qualitative analyses. Discursive textual analysis. Discourse analysis. Examples and applications.

DOP 015 – LEARNING DIFFICULTIES: COGNITIVE, PEDAGOGICAL, AND LEGAL ASPECTS

Syllabus: Understanding learning difficulties and their multiple causes. Neurodevelopmental disorders: characteristics, intervention proposals, and classroom teaching. Basic Education: public policies and legislation for Special and Inclusive Education. Learning difficulties in official curricular documents.

DOP 016 – TEACHING PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

Syllabus: Studies concepts necessary for exploratory data analysis, discrete and continuous random variables, and probability distribution. Explores the proposition of problem situations for building statistical learning. Analysis of publications about Statistical Education and their contributions to school learning and teaching practice.

DOP 017 – TOPICS IN MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS

Syllabus: Modern and contemporary Mathematics and Physics (and their teaching in Basic Education); the relationship between Mathematics and Physics. Preparation of texts and teaching materials for Physics and Mathematics teaching. Analysis of specialized journals in Physics and Mathematics education and their possible contributions to teaching practice. Analysis of popular science magazine articles and their use in the classroom.

DOP 018 – HEALTH IN THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT

Syllabus: Integral health at school. Health promotion, prevention of diseases, and health education in the school environment. Biological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects and teaching and learning processes. Pedagogical tools for health education in the school environment.

DOP 019 – SCALE IN GEOGRAPHY TEACHING

Syllabus: Geographic scale and its importance in Geography teaching. Local scale: municipality, local government, city, and urban space. Regional scale: region and the multiple faces of regionalization. Global scale: globalization, globalism, and geopolitics. Different themes of Geography at geographic scales.

DOP 020 – DESIGN SCIENCE RESEARCH

Syllabus: Differences between Natural Sciences and Artificial Sciences. Use of Design Science and Design Science Research (DSR). Application of DSR in the development of educational products.

DOP 021 – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND TEACHING: FUNDAMENTALS, TECHNOLOGIES, AND PRACTICES

Syllabus: History and evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI); fundamental concepts and functioning of AI systems; AI-based teaching and learning tools; AI applications in education: chatbots, virtual assistants, adaptive systems, and learning analytics; personalization of learning with AI; educational assessment and automated feedback; construction of lesson plans integrating AI; ethical, social, and pedagogical aspects of AI use in education; impacts of AI on the teacher’s role and the future of education.

DOP 022 – COMPUTATIONAL THINKING

Syllabus: Constructionism. Fundamentals of Computational Thinking. Unplugged Approach. Block-based programming.

COB 001 – SUPERVISED TEACHING PRACTICE FOR MASTER’S DEGREE

Syllabus: On-site monitoring by the advisor of the professional practice of the student in the Professional Master’s in Teaching program, aiming to understand the advisee’s workplace and to follow the implementations (indirect validation, direct validation, and other applications, if applicable) of the educational product.

COB 002 – SUPERVISED TEACHING PRACTICE FOR DOCTORATE I

Syllabus: On-site monitoring by the advisor of the professional practice of the student in the Professional Doctorate in Teaching program, aiming to understand the advisee’s workplace and to follow the implementations (indirect validation, direct validation, and other applications, if applicable) of the educational product.

COB 003 – SUPERVISED TEACHING PRACTICE FOR DOCTORATE II

COB 004 – COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES FOR MASTER’S DEGREE

Syllabus: Completion and proof of academic-scientific initiatives aimed at broadening the students’ education and scientific production, developed within the Concentration Area of the Program and regulated by specific instructions from PPGEN.

COB 005 – COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES FOR DOCTORATE

COB 006 – MASTER’S FINAL PROJECT I

Syllabus: Development of the Dissertation and Educational Product through training activities with the advisor.

COB 007 – MASTER’S FINAL PROJECT II

Syllabus: Development of the Dissertation and Educational Product through training activities with the advisor.

COB 008 – MASTER’S FINAL PROJECT III

Syllabus: Development of the Dissertation and Educational Product through training activities with the advisor.

COB 009 – MASTER’S FINAL PROJECT IV

Syllabus: Development of the Dissertation and Educational Product through training activities with the advisor.

COB 010 – DOCTORATE FINAL PROJECT I