Abstract

BOMFIM, Alexandre Maia do; VIEIRA, Valéria  and  DECCACHE-MAIA, Eline. Criticism of the professional masters: a reflection on what would be the most relevant contradictions. Ciência educ. [online]. 2018, vol.24, n.1, pp.245-262. ISSN 1980-850X.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1516-731320180010016.

The purpose of this article is to make a critical reflection of the comments made on Professional Masters courses, especially starting from an article entitled "The controversial role of the professional master's degrees in science education", by the researchers Rezende and Ostermann. It is intended to pursue one of the paths suggested by the authors, that of positive debate. In an opposite direction, the problems of the Professional Masters is not proposed in his article, but in others. The first point in this study explores what are the contradictions of the arguments for the Professional Masters, through descriptive research, in order to test what the challenges would be, which according to another assessment are those that really pass the Masters Professionals.

Keywords : Professional masters; Science education; Basic education; Teacher education.

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