Syllabus: Concepts of curriculum. The curriculum as a field of study. Traditional, critical and post-critical theories. School knowledge: selection and organisation. Curriculum, culture and identity: implications for pedagogical practice.

Syllabus: Concepts of curriculum. The curriculum as a field of study. Traditional, critical and post-critical theories. Historical studies of the curriculum. Contemporary discussions and issues.

Syllabus: Analysis of the theoretical-methodological foundations of research in Sociology of Education, focusing on the themes that have been dominating the field of this discipline, mostly on school inequality, school effectiveness, quality of teaching, and student failing rates.

Syllabus: The concept of Education in classical times. The medieval mentality and its effects on education. The assumptions of modernity and education in the modern age.

Syllabus: Introduction to the theory of values. The notions of education and instruction. The processes of knowledge, acquisition, and prioritisation of values. The interference of the imaginary and social representation in education. Technology, culture, technoculture, and education. Cross-sectional themes and ethics in education.

Syllabus: Education as a fundamental human right. Universal human rights and particular cultures. Human rights and democracy. UN declarations on human rights. Human rights in the Brazilian Constitution. Human rights, freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. Human rights and Brazilian legislation on education. Fundamental rights of children and teenagers.

Syllabus: Meaning of the image in contemporary society. Education and image: ways of seeing/reading/learning and teaching. The image in its multiple media: television, cinema, photography, painting, writing. Image and imagination. Narratives and narrators in the contemporary context.

Syllabus: The intervention of writing and the literate mind. Considerations on the study of writing. Orality, writing, and power. Literature and identity. Fiction and knowledge. Reading groups and educating readers. For a pedagogy of reading.

Syllabus: Textual understanding and interpretation. Hermeneutics and analysis. Text and context. Theme. Thesis and text. Concept maps. Annotating academic texts, summarising, reviewing. Types of academic text. Developing a writing plan. Elaboration: development, introduction and conclusion. Versions and revisions.

Syllabus: This topic will be offered from a specific theme and/or author from the Humanities field with a recognised social contribution to the area, also considering the affinity with ongoing researches in the programme, as well as the main theory disputes (classic or contemporary) in the field of education.

Syllabus: This topic will be offered from a specific theme and/or author from the Humanities field with a recognised social contribution to the area, also considering the affinity with ongoing researches in the programme, as well as the main theory disputes (classic or contemporary) in the field of education.