The curricular structure of the Academic Master’s Degree in Education at PPGEDUC is founded on three formative axes, which can be described as follows:

1) Education in Contemporary and Popular Demands – (45h)

The first Formative Axis consists of mandatory courses aimed at providing students with theoretical and practical tools, enabling them to identify issues related to research and contemporary relevance in the educational field and to propose scientific approaches to address them.

2) Educational Research Training – (255h)

The second Formative Axis consists of mandatory courses and activities focused on reflection and debate on theoretical and methodological issues pertinent to scientific work in education. These include:
a) “Research in Education in Contemporary Times,” a course offered at the beginning of the program, with 3 credits (45h), covering three fields of reflection: 1) contemporary debate on paradigms and their implications in the educational field; 2) scientific research and its main theoretical-methodological lines; 3) planning of scientific research.

b) “Research Seminar I,” with 4 theoretical credits (60h), and “Research Seminar II,” with 2 theoretical and 1 practical credit (60h), totaling 7 credits (120h in total). These mandatory activities take place in the first and second semesters of the program, respectively. They aim to deepen understanding of the Program’s focus area and foster critical reflection on each student’s research, promoting the exchange of experiences among students from various research lines. The term “seminar” is intentional, as these courses are expected to serve as study meetings characterized by debates on PPGEDUC’s scientific production, involving students and faculty.

c) “Research and Scientific Production I” and “Research and Scientific Production II,” two mandatory activities with 2 credits each (1 theoretical, 1 practical) (45h), totaling 90h. These are scheduled for the second and fourth semesters, respectively. In conjunction with other research training courses, these activities involve the student’s integrated actions during their investigative work, from knowledge production to participation in relevant scientific and cultural events related to their research line and project. These activities are supervised, evaluated, and recorded by the advisor.

3) Training in Specific Research Line – (90h)

a) Contemporary Studies and Educational Practices;
b) Social Inequalities and Educational Policies;
c) Ethnic-Racial and Gender Education: Afro-Diasporic Languages and Studies.

The third Formative Axis consists of elective courses, each with 3 theoretical credits (45h), offered by each Research Line at PPGEDUC. These courses stem from the dynamics of the research groups’ activities (planning, development, and evaluation) at PPGEDUC. They aim to provide graduate students with opportunities for reflection on contemporary teaching and scientific investigation in their specific research line. The list of elective courses includes Special Topics, which deepen specific (emerging or necessary) conceptual elements of research not covered in the other elective courses.