Produto educacional: desafio do mestrado profissional em educação

Abstract

How are the elaboration of a dissertation and an educational product related in the process of the Professional Master in Education (PME)? This reflective text presents the experience of the supervising professors of the Mathematical Education Line of Promestre, a professional Master Course linked to the Capes Education area, Brazil. In the selection process of this PME, candidates are encouraged to present reflections on their practices and highlight challenges as a research problem. At the end, the master's student must present a dissertation and an educational product, and this will be a concrete result in the face of the initial challenge presented. At first, it was expected that the research carried out would naturally lead to the elaboration of an educational product, but this did not occur, and the product was often hastily elaborated at the end of the process and sometimes even unrelated to the original study, that is, of the dissertation itself. The reflections on the experience show that the elaboration of an educational product needs intentionality in the orientation, from in the methodological procedures. A collective work was chosen and, among the procedures, researchteaching. Four works developed in the Promestre reflect in their construction process a balance between educational product and dissertation. The understanding presented here is shown as a specificity of PME, strengthening its identity as a formative process of knowledge and resources production.