CONCENTRATION AREA: EDUCATION
It promotes studies on education in the Amazon, seeking to understand the relations between the State, society and education from different theoretical, epistemological and methodological perspectives, with an emphasis on educational rights and public policies aimed at democratizing education. It comprises studies on educational processes, in different spaces and instances: in school systems and institutions, in social movements and in other forms of organization of Amazonian civil society. It studies the social construction of educational rights, the determinants and characteristics of public policies for basic and higher education, as well as the management of teaching systems and school units in the different states of the Amazon region. It covers studies on the State, policies, legislation, administration, financing, economics and evaluation of education, including issues of access, permanence, inequalities and forms of participation. It investigates the interfaces with the different languages and their manifestations in and by cultural practices, constitutive of subjectivity formation processes. Discusses language, taking into account social practices, diverse linguistic modalities, textual genres, socio-discursive issues, which encompass varied perspectives of studies, such as: literacy, literacy and multi-skills; discursive / textual genres; study of literary texts, children's and children's literature, among others. It investigates the relationships between language, culture, curriculum, school and non-school knowledge. It addresses issues related to the construction of knowledge, teaching and learning processes and educational practices in several curricular components. It questions the training of teachers of different stages and modalities of education. It studies, in the educational processes, the contemporary manifestations of domination and exploitation, as well as the resistances that interpose them to the diverse social subjects organized in networks and movements. It covers studies on educational inequalities, popular education, education and work, education and gender, and on struggles for educational rights and, in this context, for the recognition of the diversity of social subjects (rural and urban workers, indigenous people, Afro-descendants, migrants, people in regimes deprivation of liberty, etc.). It investigates the formative acts and pedagogical practices at their different levels and scope: basic education (early childhood education, elementary school and high school), higher education and non-formal spaces incorporating studies on epistemological, methodological aspects and overlapping from theory and practice in the process training and teaching activities, both initial and ongoing. It includes studies on systems, curriculum development and training policies; professionalization and teaching practice; information and communication technologies, in classroom and distance learning situations.
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EDUCATION IN THE AMAZON: EDUCATOR TRAINING, PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES AND CURRICULUM
It proposes the generation and diffusion of knowledge, from different theoretical and methodological perspectives, on the education of the educator, the curriculum and the pedagogical praxis, focusing on formal and non-formal education in the Amazon region. In this sense, it promotes investigative incursions on the initial and continuing training of educators linked to higher education and the stages and modalities of basic education, carried out by Amazonian institutions, discussing the epistemological, historical and philosophical bases that substantiate this training, the processes involved in professionalization and in pedagogical praxis. It articulates issues related to the formation of Amazonian educators and their pedagogical praxis to the curriculum debate on the production and social distribution of knowledge, curriculum policies, curriculum practices and the regional specificities of the history of the curriculum and school subjects. It investigates the emerging processes of knowledge production, supported by network technologies, the paradigms that guide pedagogical praxis in the context of cyberculture, cooperative and collaborative work in the dimension of collective intelligence that is built through symbolic exchanges in virtual environments and in didactic resources produced for this dimension.
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STATE, PUBLIC POLICIES AND EDUCATION MANAGEMENT
It conducts studies and researches on public education policies (formulation, implementation and educational evaluation), educational administration and educational systems, with emphasis on the relations between State and Society, planning, evaluation, legislation, financing, management of Basic Education in its different stages ( early childhood education, elementary and secondary education) and Higher Education, teaching modalities (youth and adult education and professional education), as well as their forms of organization between civil society and political society; social movements and education; Study of the relationship between work and education in its multiple dimensions in school and non-school spaces; Education and professional training.
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KNOWLEDGE, LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION
It studies the relationship between knowledge, language and education in the context of the Amazon, based on educational practices that emphasize teaching, learning, discursive interaction, literacy, literacy, reading, writing and numeracy in the construction of school knowledge. It comprises the educational process in its historical, social, cultural, aesthetic, cognitive and political characteristics, in school and non-school spaces, at its different levels, stages and modalities. Discusses socially produced knowledge in the Amazon and human formation processes.