Research Groups
De Programa de Pós Graduação em Educação
Study and Research Group on Education Policies and Praxis (GEPPPE)
Institution: UFCG
Leader(s): Joedson Brito dos Santos;
Area: Human Sciences; Education - http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/778314
Impact: Study, research and produce knowledge about Brazilian educational policies, designed and implemented from the first decade of the 21st century, particularly those implemented in the state of Paraíba and in the Northeast region. Stimulate and expand the discussion and production of knowledge about the conceptual, methodological and procedural aspects regarding the financing, management, evaluation and social control of these policies, as well as studying educational practices resulting from them. To promote both the production of knowledge for the construction of an education with social quality for the referred region and in the referred state, as well as to subsidize decision-making and elaboration of policies in this direction. The construction of a database, newsletters or yearbooks of educational and social indicators, training processes and various products that can be both a result and a permanent source of research for the field.
Research Group on Educational Policy and Management
Institution: UFCG Leader(s): Andréia Ferreira da Silva and Melânia Mendonça Rodrigues
Area: Education- http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/6990117769757611
Impact: through the research carried out, the collection of documents and the academic production and dissemination of the studies and research developed by its members, the group's activity will have an impact on: a) undergraduate and postgraduate courses - subsidizing courses and monographs for the completion of courses; b) public education systems - discussing and proposing educational policies and actions to be implemented by these systems; c) academic-scientific community - producing and accumulating knowledge related to educational policy and management in the State of Paraíba. The research group relies on the Laboratory for Studies and Research on Education Policy (LEPPE) as a base for conducting its studies and lines of research: curriculum, school education and teacher training Education: Relationship between the State and Civil Society Education Policy and Management Fundamentals.
Education, Resistance and Alternatives
Institution: UFCG
Leader: Antônio Lisboa Leitão de Souza
Area: Education - http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/1247585892085251
Impact: to contribute to the social and academic role of the UFCG through studies and research on topics and subjects in the field of education that allow, on the one hand, a greater critical understanding of reality and thus the accumulation and socialization of knowledge, and on the other hand, the collective construction of educational and socio-ecological alternatives in an emancipatory perspective and the overcoming of order in search of the Good Life. In addition, the group aims to create a space for greater inter-institutional academic interaction and to network with other research groups at the regional, national and international levels, as well as with social movements and organizations interested in the issues under study. Likewise, the group proposes the process of designing, elaborating and/or consulting public policies in the field of public education and social environment that can be implemented in the different administrative, governmental and institutional areas.
Group of Studies and Research in Educational Policies - GREPPE
Institution: UNICAMP
Leader(s): Theresa Maria de Freitas Adrião, Selma Borghi
Venco Member: Antônio Lisboa leitão de Souza (et all)
Area: Education - http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/7808868906883041
Impact: GREPPE has conducted inter-institutional research on education policy at both the national and international levels, focusing on current relationships between the public and private sectors in the provision, management, and financing of basic education and the implications of these relationships for the right to education; has advised civil society institutions in defending the right to education; has trained researchers; and has presented its work for discussion through participation in national and international events. It also organizes research seminars with external and international guests to deepen the analysis of the issues studied, and promotes the publication of its research results in academic and scientific journals. It organizes the Latin American and African Network of Researchers in the Privatization of Education (ReLAAPPe).
Higher education policy group
Institution: UFRN Leader(s): Alda Maria Duarte Araújo Castro, Antonio Cabral Neto, Antônio Lisboa Leitão de Souza.
Area: Education - http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/9024755579174265
Impact: the work of the research group has contributed to deepen the theoretical studies of higher education at the international, national and local levels. Specifically in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, the group has dedicated itself to the study of local realities and their link with trends in educational policies. In this sense, the group has published books, book chapters and articles in professional journals, and has held events to share research results. Main research areas: Education, policy and pedagogical practice.
Study and Research Group History of Education in Paraíba - HISTEDBR/PB
Institution: UFPB
Leader(s): Jean Carlo de Carvalho Costa, Mauricéia Ananias, Melânia Mendonça Rodrigues
Area: Education - http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/7797921050797895
Impact: the research group has focus on historical research on education in Paraíba. Since its inception, it has conducted an inventory and cataloging of sources on the history of education in Paraíba and has published some of this documentation, which has served as a basis for both the researchers of the group itself and external researchers. With several PIBIC and PIVIC projects, a great effort has been made for the training and qualification of new researchers from the undergraduate level. The local group is linked to the national group: Study and Research Group "History, Society and Education in Brazil" - HISTEDBR, coordinated by Dr. Dermeval Saviani from the State College of Campinas - Unicamp.
Deaf Education, Libras and Deaf Literature
Institution: UFCG
Leader(s): Niedja Maria Ferreira de Lima and Shirley Barbosa das Neves Porto
Area: Education - http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/4321989238252307
Impact: This group aims to expand and deepen knowledge of the deaf, libras, and deaf literature for teaching and teacher education, the history of education, educational policy, and deaf literacy, text genres, analysis and descriptive linguistics, didactics of language teaching; sign language productions, adaptations, and translations.
Inclusion and Alterity
Institution: UFPB
Leader(s): Ana Dorziat Barbosa de Mélo and Niedja Maria Ferreira de Lima Area: Education - http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/6336764529792481
Impact: The group seeks to develop ongoing research on inclusion in public network schools by reflecting on the need to consider educational practices as a whole. In this way, it seeks to move beyond concepts based on the binomials of regular school/special school, inclusion/segregation, disability/difference, etc., and moves toward a difference curriculum perspective. Thus, she hopes that the research findings will make an important contribution to elementary education in general and, in particular, to students with marked differences who are traditionally considered to have disabilities.
Management, Curriculum and Educational Policies
Institution: UFPEL
Leader(s): Maria Cecilia Lorea Leite, Álvaro Luiz Moreira Hypolito, Luciana Leandro da Silva
Area: Education - http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/7553642121885058
Impact: This group aims to contribute to the strengthening of the field of curriculum and educational policy by generating knowledge in the areas of planning, management and educational evaluation, the development of methods for policy analysis and evaluation, the development of curricula and the dissemination of methods for strategic planning with public institutions and non�governmental organizations. In this sense, contributions are proposed in the field of evaluation of basic and higher education, higher education pedagogy, curriculum policy, management and school power.
Group of Studies and Research in Public Policies, Education and Society- GPPES
Institution: UNICAMP
Leader(s): Gabriela Guarnieri de Campos Tebet, Antonio Carlos Dias Junior, Luciana Leandro da Silva
Area: Sociology - http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/2165174087004845
Impact: the group is a space for education, debate and research on education policy at local, national, regional and international levels. It proposes to study educational policies in Brazil and in other countries through the following themes: the process of formulation, regulation and implementation of public policies; institutional changes at different levels and modalities of the educational system and school; the socio-political theories that deal with the relationships between the state, society and education and the processes of internationalization and participation of social movements; always from an interdisciplinary perspective. The GPPE seeks to participate in bilateral agreements and in national and international academic-scientific associations.
Art, Education and New Technologies
Institution: UFCG
Leader(s): Luciênio de Macêdo Teixeira, Paulo Matias de Figueiredo
Júnior Area: Linguistics, Letters and Arts; Art - http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/2548846721654912
Impact: the group proposes to unravel the arts as a means and end for education and to make the best use of the concepts associated with this relationship, as well as a better understanding between media and art - theory - and its practical application in media such as theater, dance, cinema/ TV /video, music, photography and visual arts in general.
Unified Research Group in Arts and Music – GRUNAMUS
Institution: UFCG
Leader(s): Vladimir Alexandro Pereira Silva, Luciênio de Macêdo Teixeira
Area: Linguistics, Letters and Arts; Art http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/0227668418317346
Impact: GRUNAMUS aims to develop research activities related to the arts in general and to music in its most diverse fields, focusing on music interpretation and analysis, music pedagogy, the relationship between music, cinema, theater, literature, and technology, as well as to stimulate reflection, especially on aspects related to the teaching of art, artistic performance, and art criticism in their multiple configurations, and to support the activities of UFCG's extension, undergraduate, and graduate programs.
Educational Practices and Literacy
Institution: UFCG
Leader(s): Maria de Fatima Alves, Dorivaldo Alves Salustiano, Fabiana Ramos
Members: Kátia Patrício Benevides Campos, Roziane Marinho Ribeiro Silvia Roberta da Mota Rocha
Area: Education - http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/8648743368885284 Impact: The group aims to understand the ideas, actions, and meanings of the educational practices of different social groups in situations of knowledge production, especially in relation to the different domains of literacy. The research developed may have an impact 1) in undergraduate and graduate programs - through the initial and/or continuing training of their students and education professionals who work or will work in social realities 2) in educational networks - through the analysis and/or elaboration of educational policies and/or proposals; and 3) in the scientific community - through the access, production and dissemination of knowledge.
Society, Culture and Education
Institution: UFCG
Leader(s): André Augusto Diniz Lira, Dorivaldo Alves Salustiano Area: Education - http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/3565239562210531
Impact: the group develops studies and research in dialogue between developmental psychology, social psychology and sociology of culture; due to its interdisciplinary nature, it focuses on ethnic, racial and generational diversity and inequality, on educational practises, on social representations and identities.
Group of studies and research on childhood, early childhood education and plural contexts – Grão
Institution: UFCG
Leader(s): Fernanda de Lourdes Almeida Leal, Kátia Patrício Benevides Campos
Area: Education - http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/3638472346696533 Impact: The group proposes to examine the supply and demand conditions of rural early childhood education and related issues such as: Curriculum, pedagogical practices and teacher training; Relationship between families and early childhood education institutions; Children, contexts and subjectification processes.