Graduate studies and research about/in basic educationi: Relations and propositions

Abstract

This study is about the basis of relations between graduate studies and basic education such as set forth by Plano Nacional de Pós--Graduação [National Graduate Plan] 2011-2020 (PNPG). It is a documental study associated with quantitative/qualitative data analysis regarding academic production, whose corpus are theses and dissertations in graduate programs ranked by Capes with a grade equal to or higher than 5, in the period 2000-2010. They are: PUC/RJ, PUC/RS, PUC/SP, UERJ, UFES, UFF, UFG, UFMG, UFPEL, UFPR, UFRJ, UFRGS, UFRN, UFSCar, UFU, Unesp/MAR, Unicamp, Unimep, Unisinos, USP. The article is organized in three analytical axes: panorama of graduate policies designed by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) [Coordination for Higher Education Personnel Improvement]; guidelines for basic education which appeared in PNPG 2011-2020; academic production regarding educational policies in the period 2000-2010 and virtual contributions to understand the reality of basic education. The analysis of the academic production or education graduate programs turned out to be strategic both for the studies in the field of educational policies and for its agenda, allowing to problematize the diagnostics of scarce accumulation of knowledge in education. It became patent that much of what has been produced is intended to comprehend educational reality in Brazil, focusing mainly on basic education.