The State University of Northern Paraná Graduate Program in Education (PPEd/UENP) has as its main goal to qualify professionals for Basic Education, committed to the local and national school realities and their transformation through the proposal of differentiated and innovative projects and methodologies.
The focus of the analysis and interventions will be Basic Education, considering the Master’s student's professional experience in articulation with systematized knowledge of the Education area.
The Program projects upon the education of a professional who presents commitment to the transformation of school reality through appropriation and articulation between academic knowledge, research practices, and educational actions.
The Program’s alumni will be able to produce, expand, and disseminate, both qualitatively and quantitatively, analysis and intervention proposals in an autonomous and critical way, aimed at improving the quality of Basic Education. This instruction will be done through the following complementary objectives, equally important:
I - to train Basic Education professionals ethically committed to the quality of education with a social, political, and ethical project in order to consolidate a democratic, fair, and inclusive school, that promotes individual and social group emancipation;
II - to recognize the different theoretical frameworks that have been grounding the elaboration of public policies, management, and evaluation of Basic Education;
III - to identify the different pedagogical theories that underpin educational practices in contemporary times;
IV - to identify and analyze the educational theories used in teaching actions in in Basic Education in order to evaluate their methodological procedures;
V - to promote autonomous thinking and the debate regarding the challenges of teaching instruction towards Basic Education in today’s society;
VI - to offer, in a continuous and complementary manner, elements of the theoretical and methodological foundations, allied to the social experiences, in order to outline strategies for solving school-related problems;
VII - to discuss in an interdisciplinary manner the initial and continuing education of Basic Education teachers;
VIII - to discuss Basic Education professionals’ ethical and social commitment in contemporary society;
IX - to promote discussions that enable criticism, emancipation in order to lead to a transformative educational practice of Basic Education quality;
X - to consolidate research and qualify the Basic Education of the local region through investigations of educational reality;
XI - to encourage education professionals in the constant search for professional improvement, the elaboration of didactic materials, and proposals of innovative and differentiated methodologies in the different areas of knowledge for Basic Education;
XII - to train education professionals who work in Basic Education in an autonomous, ethical, innovative, and reflexive way;
XIII - to deepen the investigations that enable democratic-participatory management in Basic Education;
XIV - to comprehend the educational reality in its historical-cultural and political-social relations that impact the management processes in Basic Education institutions.
Prospective Students Profile
The Professional Master’s Degree in Education is aimed at students who hold undergraduate degrees in all areas of knowledge and are interested in developing research on and/or for Basic Education.
Students may enroll in the selection process as long as they present proof of completion of an undergraduate program until the act of enrollment.