In this article, we present part of the results obtained in research activities developed within the postdoctoral stage on the Stricto sensu graduate studies program and educational research in Brazil. To this end, we collected a vast amount of published studies, especially in the format of periodical articles, considered relevant to education. We chose some aspects from these articles that we judged capable of providing a reading of the graduate studies in education in Brazil in light of studies carried out in the area. In the final considerations, we highlight, among others, some aspects identified in the studies selected that remind the members of the committees that evaluate and regulate the work and the production in the academic and scientific graduate programs in education in Brazil, that it is an integral part of the general educational project of the country and, therefore, plays a socioeducational role of training researchers and higher education teachers, as well as of knowledge production capable of proposing new perspectives to the Brazilian university and educational problems.
Education; Graduate Studies in Education in Brazil; Literature Review