Program Objectives and Graduate Profile

Objectives

Aware of its academic and scientific significance, the PPG-IELT is devoted to preparing educators and researchers to engage interdisciplinarily in Education and Language Studies. The program aligns itself with contemporary demands and remains attentive to epistemological and technological innovations, fostering awareness among scholars as agents of social change committed to equity and justice. Accordingly, the program seeks to contribute to the development of professionals capable of transforming social environments through the interdisciplinary production of knowledge. It also aims to support the ongoing professional development, specialization, and advancement of graduates within its region, thereby fostering the democratization and expansion of high-quality stricto sensu graduate education

Graduate Profile

PPG-IELT expects its graduates to develop an interdisciplinary education grounded in diverse epistemological perspectives, enabling them to engage sociopolitically across a wide range of contexts related to education and language studies. Graduates are prepared to:

  1. Master’s Degree Graduates:
  • To plan and conduct socially relevant research in the areas of their academic and professional expertise;
  • To envision the school institution through multiple contemporary knowledge paradigms, thereby enabling the proposal of new educational approaches and innovative pedagogical practices, as well as new forms of school management and integration between the school and Society;
  • To work interdisciplinarily in higher education institutions, particularly in teacher education programs, fostering the integration of knowledge from the fields of education and language studies.
  • To act as sociopolitical agents in diverse contexts, specifically, to identify complex social problems related to their areas of academic background and contribute to social transformation.
  • To understand language as a social practice that constitutes subjects engaged in social institutions permeated by relations of power, diverse systems of representation, and ideologies.
  • To remain attentive to social demands for education and culture, in tune with contemporary epistemologies and current technologies.

Doctoral Graduates

  • To produce advanced and original research and propose actions arising from it, grounded in innovative epistemologies that are responsive to contemporary demands, aligned with the evolution of knowledge, and attentive to socio-educational and political aspirations of society.
  • To work as educational agents, faculty, researchers, and supervisors at the graduate level, conscious of the sociopolitical and scientific importance of their role in nurturing the critical education of other researchers and educational agents.
  • To propose and formulate socio-educational public policies in relevant bodies responsible for designing and implementing such policies.

Thus, in particular regarding the doctoral graduate profile, there is a commitment to the development of reflective, creative, and proactive professionals capable of diagnosing issues pertinent to educational institutions and proposing, implementing, and evaluating alternatives for overcoming them, always aiming at institutional enhancement and improvement of both management and teaching activities across the environments in which they operate

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