The cultural diversity in social science formation and its graduated students background: the core teaching structure experience of pernambuco university

Abstract

The cultural diversity indicates how the Political Plan of Social Science Course (PPC) in Pernambuco University organizes the ideas about what has to be taught and learned about plurality / cultural diversity in the social divisions structures. The methodology was based on the content analysis (Bardin, Bauer and Gaskell) and its categories as thematic analysis are: paradigm of pluri diversity knowledge, changings in the focus of equality / differences in the Brazilian educational policy to the political plan of Social Sciences course, curricula flexibility and profile drawing of graduated based on cultural diversity and the crisis of the pluri diversity paradigm described by Boaventura Santos. The project reflects the conflict between the student formation and the graduation customer profile. The observations contribute to discuss the PPC on Social Science and in teachers formation, also it contributes to the view of social and cultural diversity. The Brazilian Educational Legislation leaves ambiguous spaces to PPC elements. Thus, it promotes the curriculum autonomy/flexibility and includes the diversity. On the other hand, it neglects the autonomic nature of university knowledge.