Concentration 4:  History of Education: Subjects, Objects and Practices

As the result of a comprehensive and thorough review of education historiography, Brazilian Education History studies have undergone a significant change since the 1990s. The field has grown to include new research objects and approaches, and existing topics have been reshaped by the profitable exchanges between education historians and contemporary historiographic studies. In line with that reconfiguration, this degree concentration encompasses educational research that approaches historically the educational processes that take place both in and outside schools, using the theoretical frameworks provided by History, Philosophy and Social Sciences to discuss regional matters considering the national and international theoretical debate. We foster research on the following topics: (a) institutions (school, academia etc.); teacher and student formation; educational policy, practices and cultures (subjects, spaces, temporalities, knowledges, syllabi, school and academic disciplines, architecture and furniture); (b) Education intellectuals; (c) national and international processes of production, circulation and appropriation of pedagogical models and standards that influence (i) educational practices, (ii) temporal and spatial organization of schools and (iii) the establishment of memories (textbooks, pedagogical literature, press, educational press, education journals, literature etc.). Our preferred approach to those topics makes use of concepts and research procedures borrowed from Cultural History, Intellectual History and History of intellectuals, as well as New Political History.

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