UNIARA

1. Develop research and community outreach studies in the field of Education, specifically dedicated to teaching and educational management, aiming to contribute to the training of professionals in the areas of Education in Brazil, with emphasis on the state of São Paulo;
2. Improve the quality of the educational sectors of administration;
3. Train human resources linked to or with the possibility of being linked to Education services, universities, and other educational institutions, in matters of Education, Teaching and Educational Management, considering the need to encourage the training of professional masters qualified to develop activities and technical-scientific work on topics of interest to the quality of the area of education.

The Professional Master`s Degree in Teaching Processes, Management, and Innovation, recommended by CAPES, is strongly linked to the Pedagogy course, but also to other undergraduate degrees and even to interested parties from other courses that, at first glance, would not be so closely linked to education.

The Pedagogy course at University of Araraquara - Uniara was created in the early 1970s, as already stated by the creation of the Faculty of Education. In a short period of time - from 2001 to 2006 - it was transformed into a Higher Education Normal Course, training exclusively teachers for the initial grades of elementary school. Analyzed by technicians from the National Institute of Pedagogical Studies and Research (INEP), who approved it, it received the highest score from the Ministry of Education and Culture for its proposal and working conditions. Since 2007, with legal restrictions on the existence of this type of course, Uniara has decided to, once again, offer the Pedagogy course, lasting four years and offering more differentiated training opportunities. Over the last three decades, the area of education has been strengthened with other degrees and courses in other modalities after graduation.

Currently, the Pedagogy course provides training for teachers in Early Childhood Education; for the initial years of Elementary School; for high school courses, Normal mode (this mode still exists in some regions of the country); for Professional Education in school services and support and for other jobs for which pedagogical knowledge is required, always in accordance with current legislation. It has a qualified faculty consisting of masters and doctors and has been increasingly improving the training offered to its more than 200 students. In addition to regular activities, it offers students Extension and Scientific Initiation projects with the CNPq PIBIC Scholarship Program, or without financial aid, having institutionalized the Scientific Initiation Coordination since 1999. In the teaching sphere, in 2003, the Integrated Center for Studies and Research of Uniara was created, signifying the milestone of the institutionalization of scientific research by the institution, who had already been working in this sphere, previously, in almost all undergraduate courses. With this measure, the institutional conditions for research by the faculty were established, in addition to the creation of a Research Committee that, after mapping the potential, verified the possibilities for creating work groups. From that time on, 3 master`s programs were created, all with an emphasis on the regional dimension. Thus, in recent years, groups of research professors were created in education in two axes, namely: Educational Management and Teaching Processes. Both groups have been carrying out regular activities for some time, with projects involving researchers from other institutions in a healthy and fruitful exchange and production, as will be discussed later. Evidently, such measures, over the years, have created the institutional climate to achieve the goal of creating stricto sensu graduate courses, as has occurred in other areas.

• 2 classrooms equipped with multimedia and internet;
• One coordination room;
• Secretary (joint with another program);
• 3 rooms for professors;
• 1 meeting room;
• Auditorium for dissertation and thesis defense (shared use with other programs);
• Research room for students (shared use with other programs);
• All environments are air-conditioned and equipped with modern furniture;
• Internet access via wireless network for professors and students, with IP configuration for access to scientific databases (such as the CAPES journal portal).

In addition to the room with 12 computers for students, located in Unit 2, teachers and students also have access to four large laboratories in Unit I, which can be used for specific classes that require students to use computers, such as the subject “Basis for preparing a research project”, which includes a module focused on teaching how to search in databases.

The collection is constantly updated by the University of Araraquara, which allocates 2% of its revenue to the Library Development Fund (FUNBI), which allows the Central Library to establish a schedule for acquiring bibliographic material such as books, periodicals, CD-ROMs, videotapes, DVDs, etc., following the following criteria:

• The collection of general education books is systematically updated, consisting of 35,734 titles and 72,020 volumes (in February/2015);
• In the area of Education and related subjects, the Library has 52 periodicals distributed as follows: 29 in the area of Education, 11 in Psychology and 12 in Speech Therapy.

The library takes a total area of 1,010.30m2. It has rooms for group studies with well-lit and air-conditioned facilities.

BIREME - Bibliotecas Regionais de Medicina (www.bireme.br)
LILACS - Literatura Latino Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde
MEDLINE - Literatura Internacional em Ciências da Saúde
ADOLEC - Saúde na adolescência
ADSAÚDE - Administração de Serviços de Saúde
BBO - Bibliografia Brasileira de Odontologia
BDENF - Base de dados em Enfermagem
HISA - História da Saúde Pública na América Latina e Caribe
HOMEOIDEX - Homeopatia
LEYES - Legislação Básica de Saúde da América Latina e Caribe
MEDCARIBE - Literatura do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde
REPIDISCA - Literatura em Engenharia Sanitária e Ciências do Ambiente
OPAS/OMS
PAHO - Acervo da Biblioteca da Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde
WHOLIS - Sistema de Informação de Biblioteca OMS
DESASTRES - Acervo do Centro de Documentação de Desastres
SciELO - Electronic publishing model for developing countries
SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online
CCN - Catálogo Coletivo Nacional de Publicações Seriadas (www.ibict.br)
UNIBIBLI (www.cruesp.bc.unicamp.br/search.html)
This database covers the collection of books, theses and periodicals existing in the three São Paulo State Universities: USP, UNICAMP and UNESP.
CAPES - access to the Science Direct and Scopus databases.

• Guidance and training for users on how to use the Library (monitored visits);
• Home loans and consultation for the Institution`s faculty members and students;
• Local consultation with free access to the community in general;
• Internet - direct research for faculty and students, with the availability of 11 computers allocated in the Library;
• Bibliographic exchange - COMUT/IBICT and BIREME;
• Bibliographic survey – UNIBIBLI and BIREME;
• Standardization of scientific works such as theses, monographs, journal articles and the Uniara Journal;
• Preparation of cataloging cards for course completion works;
• Access to CAPES journals.