The Center for Education Sciences of UFSC: accounts of a trajectory

Abstract

This article describes some of the history of the Center for Education Sciences at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (CED/UFSC), in an attempt to reveal its role in teacher training. It is thus inscribed in the history of education field. The paper discusses the function of the first normal schools, as teacher’s colleges were known, referring to the creation of the Escola Normal Catharinense and the Faculdade Catarinense de Filosofia [The Santa Catarina College of Philosophy], and their relation with the later founding of Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. It comments on the development of the Center for Education Sciences over the past fifty years, affirming its role as the main locus for the training of education professionals in Santa Catarina state.