The certified research groups of CNPq: teacher education

• Grant number: 13/22572-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2013
• End date: April 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Specific topics in Education
• Principal Investigator: Elvira Cristina Martins Tassoni
• Grantee: Jonas Fernandes
• Host Institution: Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-CAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research has as locus of investigation the certified Research Groups in the Research Group Directory of Brazil in CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). It aims to track the latest scientific productions of the certified Groups in the CNPq directory, and it has as object of investigation the "teachers education", identifying the main topics discussed between these studies. In this way, it will involve a search on the internet site of CNPq, with the following steps: a) selection of the Research Groups that have as objective of investigation the "teachers education"; b) tracking of productions in the Research Groups selected in the form of articles between 2010 and 2013; c) identification of the main themes in these productions; d) construction of an overview of the productions of the Research Groups selected. It is expected that at the end of the research it would be possible to situate theoretically the approaches of studies on teachers education, supporting discussions and researches on teaching practices and teacher education, in order to help discussions of the research group in which this project is linked, as well as exchanges that could improve a variety of activities undertaken by researchers.