Projeto político pedagógico do curso de Pedagogia da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria: reflexões sobre a articulação teoria e prática

Abstract

This study turns to reflection on the dilemma between educational theory and practice within the School of Education, Federal University of Santa Maria. The research aimed to understand and realize the attempt to overcome the dichotomy between the theoretical and practical knowledge through the analysis of curriculum matrices for 1984, 2004 and 2007, with reflections, concepts and understandings about these issues and the relations established between them, trying to understand what the pillars supporting this dichotomy, crossing thus the importance of management in the Pedagogy Course. It presents a brief historical resume of the Education Course traversing its creation, its development and implementation at the Federal University of Santa Maria. The methodological approach is qualitative research, grounded in theoretical and methodological assumptions of Chizzotti (2006) and especially Lüdke and Andrew (1986), using documentary analysis as a tool for empirical data collection. Finally, we present the conclusions reached with this research.