Abstract

TAVARES, Philippe Drumond Vilas Boas; BIANCHETTI, Lucídio  and  VALLE, Ione Ribeiro. Brazilian professional postgraduate studies: the development of a new form and a distinction from the existing degree. Rev. Educ. Questão [online]. 2024, vol.62, n.72, e-36449.  Epub Dec 02, 2024. ISSN 1981-1802.  https://doi.org/10.21680/1981-1802.2024v62n72id36449.

With the establishment of professional doctoral degrees in 2017, Brazilian graduate studies now have a new subdivision between the academic and the professional. The objective of this paper, based on bibliographical research, is to analyze, from a Bourdieusian perspective, whether this opening of graduate studies to the professional field is configured in a dichotomous perspective, in the sense of privileging a certain area of knowledge within the academic field, to the detriment of another, incurring in a distinction (Bourdieu, 2007) between the traditional graduate degree in the academic field and the acceptance of the professional area. Since the state did not take responsibility for funding professional graduate programs, their character as professional training is subject to the financial guidelines of the agents involved in the research proposals. It is therefore necessary to separate the discourse coming from niches of resistance that favor academic master's and doctorates from criticism made through grounded and contextualized research, so as not to incur in discourse without foundation.

Keywords : Professional master's and doctorate; Bourdieusian perspective; Graduation degree and distinction; Euphemisms of professionalization.

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