PROFESSIONAL MASTER'S DEGREE AND EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS: CONTRIBUTIONS TO TEACHER TRAINING

• Grant number: 23/11357-9
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: August 01, 2025
• End date: July 31, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Specific topics in Education
• Principal Investigator: Maria de Fátima Ramos de Andrade
• Grantee: Maria de Fátima Ramos de Andrade
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação, Filosofia e Teologia. Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (UPM). Instituto Presbiteriano Mackenzie. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Ana Maria Falsarella ; ANA SÍLVIA MOÇO APARICIO

Abstract

The educational products of professional master's degrees, results of research, have been the object of study in different areas. In addition to writing the results of the research, the graduates of these programs present practical contributions of how we could solve certain educational problems. In this sense, they are fundamental both for the learning of the researcher and for the improvement of educational practice. From the analysis of products generated in Professional Master's Programs in Education, located in the state of São Paulo, in the period from 2021 to 2023, the research project proposed here intends to answer four interrelated questions: a - Was the educational product, the proposition of the research, constructed from the problematization of professional practice? b - What are the areas of knowledge that are being prioritized in the development of educational products? c - Does the educational product promote the articulation between academic knowledge and the various sectors of professional practice? d - What are the contributions of the educational product to the construction of pedagogical knowledge of the content in different contexts? Thus, the objective of this research is to analyze products generated in Professional Master's Programs in Education, located in the state of São Paulo that have as a premise the construction of pedagogical content knowledge. We bet on the idea, referenced by Shulman, that such knowledge is a central component of the knowledge base of teaching something, understanding something as specific contents of the school curriculum. It is a qualitative research that intends to analyze educational products, taking master's dissertations as objects of analysis. The theoretical framework that will support the study is anchored in the work of researchers - Cochran-Smith, Lee Shulman, Mizukami, Garcia, Zeichner, Loughran, Ludke, André and Gatti - who discuss issues related to the professional master's degree and who have highlighted in their investigations themes that deal with teacher professional development. (AU)