O gênero acadêmico em questão: uma análise sociorretórica de resumos de dissertações de mestrado do projeto Teletandem Brasil

The goal of this paper is to investigate the academic genre abstract of master's thesis in the context of the research project Teletandem Brasil: foreign languages for all. Taking as starting point the concepts of genre from the social-rhetorical perspective we analyzed ten abstracts of theses (a genre which is already legitimized) related to that project (which is a relatively new context). As a result of the analysis, we noticed the occurrence of a phenomenon that we called reduction of rhetorical effort, which consists in erasing rhetorical units that justify the validity of the research described in the abstracts analyzed. Among the contributions of this paper, we can highlight relevant reflections not only to the discourse communities that support the academic genre but also to the researchers who aspire to a place in this niche.

O mestrado profissional na área de ensino de Ciências e Matemática: alguns esclarecimentos

This paper, elaborated from documents created and used in the last years by the commissions and coordinations of the Science and Mathematics Teaching CAPES/MEC (Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel/Ministry of Education) Area, brings some explanations regarding the professional master’s degree in Science and Mathematics Teaching. This kind of master’s program is an innovation in Brazil and may contribute significantly to the improvement of science and mathematics teaching in the country. It may also stimulate the development of similar proposals in other Latin-American countries.

Um estudo das dissertações do programa de mestrado em educação da Universidade Estadual de Londrina (1995-2006)

In this work we make a study of the dissertations of Master of Education, at the State University of Londrina, in the period 1995 to 2006. It aims to provide support to other researchers who may be interested in the topic and find material available for further studies, examining the organization of the program to detect their social involvement with the city of Londrina and its regional environment, specifically north of Paraná. His character is descriptive census. The mapping these productions show significant contributions to the construction of educational policies at the local level, but mainly in education and training of teachers for higher education in the region and also meet the teacher network municipal and state. It also provides a critique of their training students to act in society and in the production and transmission of knowledge but also for the collective construction of the university.

Cursos de mestrado acadêmico na área de enfermagem: análise da carga horária

OBJETIVO: identificar, entre os cursos de Mestrado Acadêmico dos programas de pós-graduação em enfermagem brasileiros, analisados por ocasião da avaliação trienal (2007-2009) da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, a carga horária informada pelos programas para a formação de mestre. MÉTODO: trata-se de estudo descritivo, quantitativo, documental, com dados coletados em julho de 2010, mediante consulta aos relatórios da citada Coordenação, no quesito "Propostas dos Programas", dos Cadernos de Indicadores, disponíveis na web. RESULTADOS: foram encontradas discrepâncias entre as cargas horárias dos 32 cursos de Mestrado Acadêmico das diversas regiões do Brasil, sendo que a menor carga horária foi de 315 horas e a maior de 1.530 horas. CONCLUSÕES: há necessidade de maior discussão acerca da carga horária necessária à formação das competências e habilidades para o perfil desejado do egresso. O estudo propicia avanços no conhecimento da enfermagem, pois não foram identificadas investigações pregressas que tratem de tal tema. Espera-se que os cursos de Mestrado Acadêmico de enfermagem percebam-se nesse processo e revejam suas decisões pedagógicas, à luz dos novos modelos de formação/capacitação dos profissionais de enfermagem, centrados na ciência, tecnologia e inovação na área.

Produção do mestrado profissional em ensino de ciências naturais e matemática da UFRN (física e química/2005-2012): papel dos documentos oficiais e características dos produtos educacionais

The importance of the Professionals Master in the field of science education is revealed by the recognition that they provide, to practicing teachers, in particular, training spaces for reflection and application of knowledge. This work appears in the context of the project "Research and training in teaching science and mathematics: a cutout of academic production in the northeast and overview of formative action in basic education" on the Centre for Education program, which main objective was to conduct studies description, analysis and evaluation of the academic production of Postgraduate Programs in Science Teaching of UFRPE, UFRN and UEPB and investigate the contribution of continuing education in stricto sensu level, of graduated teachers to improve the quality of basic education . We sought to examine a cut of academic production PPGECNM / UFRN, taking as reference dissertations of Natural Sciences, finished between the years 2005 and 2012, which have developed and applied educational products for high school students. More specifically we sought to conduct a general characterization of the dissertations analyzed for basic descriptors, to understand if and how the official documents governing the Brazilian education, especially science education, subsidized development of dissertations and identify current trends for science teaching are addressed and which ones are used in preparing the product of dissertations. The survey was based on documentary analysis, a type of qualitative approach in which the documents are objects of study in themselves. The results revealed that most of the work was developed in public schools, on subjects of physics and chemistry. During analytical reading of the text of the dissertations was observed that, in its construction, most of them addressed somehow, official documents governing the Brazilian educational system, that the products are basically teaching units and teaching approaches that are more focused on Experimentation and History and Philosophy of Science

Mestrado profissional em saúde da família: o curso sob a perspectiva dos mestrandos

Professional masters were created in Brazil in the 1990s in response to social changes in the world of work and aim to train high-level professionals with own profile for various activities of society and the productive sector. They are up in more innovative mode of graduate studies in Brazil, and therefore lack of legitimacy of their identity, which raises the need for discussions to get further information and outline the characteristics of this postgraduate modality. You want to build new understandings about their peculiarities starting from the perspective of students from the Professional Masters in Health Net Northeast Family Training in Family Health, and not only according to the similarities and differences with the academic master. This study aims to understand the meanings attributed by masters training in that course. This is a qualitative, exploratory study. The subjects are 100 students in training in 2013, distributed among the six institutions nucleation Network Northeast Training in Family Health. To collect information desk research was conducted in institutional records of all students, as well as interviews. We interviewed 15 students, distributed in the six nucleation institutions. Information obtained through recorded interviews were transcribed and resulted in two analytical corpus subsequently submitted to Alceste © 4.9 software for identification of semantic classes. It can be concluded that the course provided a redefinition of professional practices in the Family Health Strategy, considering the organizational context of primary care in the Northeast and the specifics of the health work. Even before the student body difficulties related to ownership of research methods, and the very active methodology of problem-based learning, the course effectively contributed to the improvement of work processes in primary care, valuing teamwork and allowing the acquisition of new scientific knowledge.

Reengenharia de processos de negócio: o caso dos processos de coordenação dos cursos de licenciatura e mestrado da Escola Superior da Tecnologia e Gestão do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

O mercado atual das instituições do ensino superior (IES) é caraterizado pela forte concorrência, o que chama a estas instituições uma necessidade de serem cada vez mais eficazes, oferecendo melhores serviços sem ter que desperdiçar os recursos cada vez mais escassos. A reengenharia de processos de negócios (BPR) oferece às instituições do ensino superior a possibilidade de repensarem os seus processos, eliminando as ineficiências dos serviços prestados à sua comunidade académica e serem cada vez mais competitivas ao nível de qualidade e preço. Este estudo tem como objetivo caraterizar os processos, a sua importância, o tempo despendido na realização destes processos e saber as possibilidades de automatização dos processos ou se o processo pode ser realizado por um colaborador administrativo com vista à reengenharia. Concentramos o nosso estudo na coordenação dos cursos da Escola Superior da Tecnologia e Gestão (ESTG) porque a coordenação dos cursos são a espinha dorsal da ESTG Leiria. Foi realizado uma revisão da literatura sobre o conceito de Processos, a sua importância e as diferentes formas de os descrever e ainda abordámos o conceito da reengenharia de processos, os desafios a que se propõe e a reengenharia de processos nas instituições do ensino superior. Foram realizados dois inquéritos aos 29 coordenadores dos cursos da ESTG Leiria, entre os quais 16 licenciaturas e 13 mestrados, onde se obteve, no primeiro, 15 respostas válidas e no segundo 14 respostas válidas. A metodologia utilizada é o estudo de caso; podemos ver que esta metodologia traz resultados, permitindo constatar, neste estudo, que é possível reduzir o número de horas despendidas para a realização dos processos de coordenação dos cursos, que alguns processos podem ser automatizados e também que existem processos de coordenação dos cursos que podem ser realizados pelos colaboradores administrativos