Introduction

The Graduate Program in Science and Mathematics Education is intended to produce research professors at both the Master’s and PhD levels capable of:

• producing knowledge in Science and Mathematics Education on the learning, teaching and teacher training; teaching technologies; culture, epistemology and scientific education;
• producing innovation, based on Science and Mathematics Education in Basic as well as Higher Education;
• producing interdisciplinary actions and investigations for Science and Mathematics Education, associated with the socio-cultural context;
• producing adequate practices to teaching and learning in Science and Mathematics with the aid of technological resources.

The Master’s degree has a maximum length of 30 months, and students must defend a thesis; the PhD program has a maximum length of 54 months, and students must defend a dissertation making an original contribution to the area of Education, especially in Science and Mathematics Education.