Quo vadis, Professional Doctorate (PD)? : Analysis and examples from professional didactics

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Regis Vieira
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; spa; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/iberoamericana/article/view/16051
• topic: Doutorado profissional; Doutorado acadêmico; Aprendizagem e competência profissional; Didática Profissional; Professional doctorate; Academic doctorate; Learning and professional competence; Professional didactics; Doctorado profesional; Doctorado académico; Aprendizaje y competencia profesional; Didáctica profesional

The variant of "Ph.D." (Philosophiae Doctor), called Professional Doctorate, was established as a notion, with genesis in the academic locus, as an asynchronous response of the university, facing a wide spectrum of challenges and criticisms raised by a society, increasingly permeated by needs involving technical knowledge and specialized scientific knowledge, as well as increasingly robust professional knowledge and skills, in order to respond to the corresponding challenges for a given professional field. In this sense, this paper discusses an evolutionary process on the notion of Professional Doctorate, through a necessary examination of professional knowledge, which is sometimes pragmatic and that, in some way, requires certain paradigms, aiming at its recognition by the academy. Then, with the support of the assumptions of Professional Didactics, it presents some implications that allow the establishment of a validation protocol for knowledge originated in products.