Overview and History

History of the Program

Located in the Central-West region of Brazil and organized as a multicampus university, the State University of Goiás (UEG) has a presence in 39 of the 242 municipalities in Goiás, through physical campuses and university units (UnU), as well as distance education (EaD) centers. Within this context, faculty members from the Pedagogy and Letters courses of the institution organized in 2011 and developed a proposal to create the interdisciplinary master's degree program in Education, Language, and Technologies. Subsequently, the PPG-IELT was recommended by CAPES and officially approved by Ministerial Ordinance No. 1,324 dated November 8, 2012, and published in the Official Gazette on November 9, 2012, becoming the third stricto sensu postgraduate program offered by UEG.

After 11 years of operation and having successfully undergone two CAPES quadrennial evaluations for 2013-2016 and 2017-2020, in which it received grade 4, the program submitted a proposal to CAPES in December 2023 to expand its offerings by introducing a doctoral program, building on the experience gained since the launch of the master’s program in 2012. highlighted the quality of its academic education, faculty maturation, and the consolidation of research lines. As a result, the PPG-IELT community felt prepared to broaden its scope introducing the doctoral program.

On September 19, 2024, the evaluation result was published, approving the proposal during the 231st Technical Scientific Higher Education Council meeting held from August 26 to 30, 2024. On March 20, 2025, Ministerial Ordinance No. 213 from the Ministry of Education was issued, officially recognizing the program's approval and published on March 21, 2025.

This achievement highlights the potential of PPG-IELT to expand high-level research and innovation across the state of Goiás and Brazil’s Central-West region, interdisciplinary linking the scientific fields of Education and Language Studies, interwoven with technologies and social practices. The aim is to create new possibilities for intervention in knowledge construction processes and in the education of individuals who are politically aware and engaged in society as agents of transformation and change.

Starting in the second semester of 2025, with the launch of its doctoral program, PPG-IELT expands its potential to contribute to a critical conception necessary for knowledge construction through research, teaching, and outreach. It establishes itself as a center of excellence in interdisciplinary education of professionals in the fields pf Education and Language, leveraging technologies as mediating tools. With this achievement, it becomes the fourth graduate program at UEG to offer a doctoral degree.

Source: PPG-IELT Coordination, 03/10/2025.