What is the History of Education in Brazil today? Time of Reflection

The article reflects on the History of Education in Brazil as an academic discipline signaling the gradual reduction in the curriculum of the degree in Pedagogy and its expansion in postgraduate courses in Education, due to the significant research expansion in the area, at a national level, from the year 1970. The research field of internal criticism has been operated through balances of production in studies on the history of the discipline, in normal schools, undergraduate and graduate education. It shows that, despite the gap between research and teaching, the fields are inextricably linked. It marks the fruitful dialogue with the historiography of History and History of Education, in national and international terms, as well as the diversity of themes and theoretical and methodological approaches, which stems from the multidisciplinary training of researchers who produce in the area. It lists some challenges facing the field, before the growing process of internationalization of research, for a greater visibility of Brazilian researchers in foreign publications, both quantitatively and qualitatively. How to reference this article Bastos, M. H. C. (2016). O que é a História da Educação no Brasil hoje? Tempos de reflexão. Espacio, Tiempo y Educación, 3(1), 43-59. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14516/ete.2016.003.001.