PPEdu is organized into three Research Lines, subdivided into seven cores:
Line 1 - Philosophical, Historical, Political and Cultural Perspectives on Education
Systematic reflection on education drawn from Philosophy and Education, History of Education, Educational Policies, and Cultural Practices, focusing on pedagogical processes, school dynamics, and the construction of knowledge. This line is organized into three cores:
Core 1: Philosophy and Education
Objective: Develop research that deals with the possible relations between Philosophy and Education and offers contributions to the understanding of educational problems.
Core 2: History, Culture, School and Teaching.
Objective: Develop research in the following fields: history of education; history teaching; history education; memory; heritage; culture and school culture; knowledge and practices in different educational spaces.
Core 3: Educational Policies
Objective: Study public policies in the international and national contexts, their effects on the development of the educational system, and the school context at different levels.
Line 2 - Teaching: Knowledge and Practices
The actions by participants converge towards the production of knowledge on teaching, taking knowledge and practices in pedagogical, psychological, and epistemological aspects into consideration, aiming at education that is committed to the needs of the school context, in the various levels and modes of education. The course is organized in two cores:
Core 1: Teacher Training
Objectives: Develop teaching and research activities, focusing on aspects related to the initial and continuing education of teachers.
Core 2: Teaching Action
Objectives: Develop teaching and research activities, focusing on didactic-pedagogical and motivational aspects of teaching.
Line 3 - Learning and Human Development in school contexts
The actions by teachers converge on investigations into daily life at schools, teaching, learning, and human development processes. This line is organized into two cores:
Core 1: Learning, Human Development and Schooling
Objective: Carry out research in school institutions focusing on the interaction among its subjects; pedagogical practices; school organization and its institutional aspects.
Research Topics: Everyday school life; learning to teach; social representations and education; reading - practices and strategies; games and processes of cognitive and socio-affective construction; resilience; schooling and institutional aspects.
Core 2: Special Education
Objective: Carry out research focusing on the education of people with special educational needs (SEN), regarding educational policies; the interactions in the school routine; the teaching-learning process; the pedagogical practices; and the training of its professionals.
Research Topics: Inclusive education: theoretical and practical aspects; teacher training/human resources for working with students with SEN; schooling of people with SEN at different levels of education; processes of stigmatization in everyday school life; educational policies for the schooling of students with SEN.
The Program for Graduate Studies in Education (PPEdu) of the State University of Londrina (UEL), with concentration on School Education, had its Academic Master's course created by UEL Resolution No. 2.333/1993 and began its activities in 1994, in order to train researchers in the area of education. In 2015, the Proposal for a New Doctoral Course (APCN) was approved and the admission of the first class occurred in 2016. Its PhD program was consolidated with the graduation of the first generation of doctors.
PPEdu integrates both the UEL and National Graduate systems. Currently, the Program is organized in three Lines of Research:
The Graduate Program in Education at UEL, with concentration in School Education, offers Master's, Doctorate, and Post-Doctoral Internships for Brazilians and internationals.
Master's degree: for holders of a bachelor's degree.
Mandatory Activities
Optional Activities
Total credits
Total hours
36 credits
16 credits
52
780
Required Activities: Research in Education. Guided Research Activities. Programmed Activity. Dissertation I. Dissertation II. Dissertation III. Dissertation IV
PhD: for holders of a Master's degree.
Mandatory Activities
Optional Activities
Total credits
Total hours
84 credits
12 credits
96
1440
Required Activities: Theories of Education. Advanced Studies I: Epistemology and Research in Education. Advanced Studies II: Research in Education. Teaching Internship. Programmed Activity. Thesis I. Thesis II. Thesis III. Thesis IV. Thesis V. Thesis VI. Thesis VII. Thesis VIII.
Post-doctorate: the post-doctoral internship is a set of study and research and/or technological-innovation activities developed by a doctoral degree holder who is not a member of the UEL's permanent faculty, under the supervision of a permanent professor of PPEdu. Minimum duration: 06 months/ Maximum duration: 24 months (CEPE/UEL Resolution n. 053/2019).
The Program for Graduate studies in Education (PPEdu) at the State University of Londrina (UEL) is linked to the Center of Education, Communication and Arts (CECA) and the Department of Education (EDU).
In operation since 1994, the PPEdu has School Education as its focus area. Its mission is to train, at the master's, doctoral, and post-doctoral internship levels, qualified professionals to carry out research, teaching and other activities related to education in school environments and in different levels and modalities.
General objective: To train and graduate teacher-researchers in the educational field for the school situation in its different levels and modalities.
Specific objectives: (a) to theoretically and methodologically subsidize the creation and proposition of programs and institutional actions in the light of philosophical and scientific knowledge; (b) to provide and instrumentalize the production of knowledge drawing on reflection and critical analysis of the teacher's role, aiming at understanding the school and the processes related to teaching, learning and human development; and, (c) to understand school education as a historically-constructed social practice, considering the implicit political processes for its realization, as possibilities for analysis.
Target Audience: The Program is aimed at graduates from Pedagogy majors and other licentiates, professionals who work in basic education, in its various stages and modalities, as well as professors teaching in higher education.