The subject Education Policy in pedagogy courses: a preliminary study

Abstract

The article presents the results of a research that has as its central theme the subject Educational Policy in the Pedagogy courses, performed within the scope of the UNICENTRO (PR) Pedagogy course. The objective was to identify the nomenclature, time and year of offer the subject Educational Policy in three Pedagogy courses of State University of Paraná, as well as the main challenges encountered by teachers regarding to this field of study. Data collection and analysis were carried out through researches of the pedagogical projects of courses in the institutional websites and questionnaire emailed to the teachers who work with the subject Educational Policy in the Pedagogy courses of the three institutions surveyed. From the research performed, we can observe the subject Educational Policy is paramount for teachers formation, occupies a mandatory space in undergraduate courses and contemplates economic, political, historical and social Education issues.

Keywords

• Educational Policies
• Subject Educational Policy
• Pedagogy Course
• Course Pedagogical Project
• Research in Educational Policy