PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM: CHARACTERISTICS, SPECIFICATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES

• Autor(a) principal: Lanza Savegnago, Cristiano
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Gabriel Dalla Corte, Marilene
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Temas em Educação
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/rteo/article/view/67169
• topic: Higher education. Postgraduate studies. Professional Master. Emerging contexts.; Educación superior. Posgrado. Maestría profesional. Contextos emergentes.; Educação superior. Pós-graduação. Mestrado profissional. Contextos emergentes.

This article focuses on the stricto sensu postgraduate course, having the Professional Programs in Education as the object of discussion. The objective is to identify its trajectory, characteristics, specificities and some perspectives. It is configured as a documentary and bibliographic research with a qualitative approach. The historical rescue of postgraduate courses (in the Educational áreas) show that, although the first courses are little more than a decade old, the number of 52 master's degrees distributed in all Brazilian regions, as well as the three doctoral courses, indicate it was successfolly achieved. While characteristics and specificities, the guidelines point out that the essence of this modality is the production of applied/implicated research focused on problems related to the graduate student's work context, leading to the development of educational products aimed at solving or proposing referrals or interventions in the investigated context. Thus, it is possible to state that professional programs in emerging contexts, especially master's courses, have conquered their space in postgraduate education in the area of Education, adding to for the qualification of socio-educational contexts.