PPGE/Unimep – 50 Anos Núcleos de Estudos e Pesquisas

Abstract

PPGE-Unimsp – 50 Years

Study and Research Centers

Abstract

The scope of this paper is to conceptualize and describe, in a descriptive-analytical study, one of the most important curricular activities of Unimep Postgraduate Program in Education, called the Study and Research Center, as well as to evaluate its importance for the Program achieving its essential objectives over the 27 years of existence of the Study and Research Centers. For this purpose, this text begins with a set of questions that can be represented by the following: 1) At which point in the history of the PPGE-Unimep were the Study and Research Centers set up?  2) What was its purpose and how did it fit into the Program Curriculum (Master’s and Doctorate)? 3) What was its relationship with the previous areas of concentration and with the actions needed to implement the Program’s two preferred Thematic Areas adopted since the Doctorate was established (1992)? The answers to these and other questions were based on information and data contained in the documents of the Program’s Collegiate, in the orders and/or resolutions in the annual, biannual, triennial, and quadrennial reports of the Capes Collection, as well as in the reports of Visiting Commissions sent by Capes, and in the decisions of this regulatory and control agency on the Program’s performance.

Keywords: Study and Research; curricular activities; collective mentoring.