The dichotomy of theory and practice in the relationship of training and the work of the postgraduate student

Abstract

This article aims to understand how it is constituted, in the view of graduate students, the dichotomy between theory and practice in the relationship of training and work of graduate students. The research subjects are graduate students of a professional master's program at a public federal university. The students are all workers and are dedicated in their training at the graduate level, with university management as their formative end. We believe that the relationship between education and other social phenomena needs to be historically unveiled and critically analyzed, supported by theory. That is, theory and practice are interrelated in the conception that every theory enters into a social vacuum if it is not supported by practice, and vice-versa. Theory and practice are philosophical categories, essential to the worker's training process. It is in the mediation of this relationship that there are possibilities of transforming objective reality. This research is based on a qualitative investigation, in a descriptive case study. It is a bibliographical research, which is part of a larger project in the research line of Public Policies and Society.