Science Teaching

According to CNE / CES 0079/2002, “Professional Master” (Mestrado Profissional, or MP for short) refers to a Masters Program that emphasizes on studies and techniques directly related to the performance of a high-level professional qualification. This is the only difference between a Professional Master and a regular Masters Degree. Therefore, both programs confer the same degrees and prerogatives, including for the exercise of teaching; and like any strictu sensu graduate program, the Professional Masters has the national validity of its diploma conditioned to previous recognition of the program.

UNIFEI’s Graduate Program in Science Teaching was implemented in 2011, initially on a professional masters level. It focuses on high-level professional qualification, generating knowledge through the study of intrinsic practices of acting science teachers. In order to do so, it integrates didactical-pedagogical education and the area’s specific education, improving and updating current scientific knowledge, as well as theoretical, methodological and epistemological aspects of Science Teaching. The program’s main goal is to graduate well-prepared personnel to act both in the classroom and on the teaching systems, by developing educational processes and products for improving Science Teaching. Until July 2013, it has graduate 12 masters in Science Teaching.