Collaborative methodologies in stricto sensu postgraduate studies in education

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the use of collaborative methodologies in stricto sensu postgraduate studies, which aim to promote sociological imagination of master students. It is assumed that collaborative methodologies enable to produce academic knowledge with self-confidence and innovation. It then presents itself as an experience report, lived in the Postgraduate Program in Education, from the Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, in the academic semester of 2018.2, involving two professors and thirty-five master´s students from three lines of research, in a mandatory subject. For its elaboration, beyond the collective written production of the panels, it was requested the individual report of three master’s students, intentionally chosen, one of each line, for empiric subsidies. The collaborative methodologies enabel each group to create strategies/referrals, shapening the sociological imagination of graduate students, using the individual and collective writing. Finally, graduate students must be challenged to do new experiences, to think for themselves in the different training spaces. Without keen sociological imagination, there is no innovation and creation.