This work was developed based on the idea that being a higher education teacher is not just a question of having command of contents, of having expertise in a given field. The pedagogical practice at that level is complex, contextualized, often unpredictable, and is shaped by ethical and political choices. In this sense, we understand that teaching demands a formative process that may have as its initial stage stricto sensu graduate studies. From such discussions we have established as our objective to study the way in which pedagogical formation is treated within higher education public policies, more specifically with respect to stricto sensu graduate studies. For that, we have made use of two methodological frameworks: Pierre Bourdieu's field theory and the critical discourse analysis by Norman Fairclough. Understanding graduate studies as a scientific field, and the analysis of the National Plan for Graduate studies, indicated that this level of higher education is basically focused on the accumulation of scientific capital and on the formation of scientific habitus, all amidst a silence about the teaching dimension of doing and being a teacher. We concluded that there is a need to develop a culture of valuing teaching at the University, a process that can have in the valuation of a pedagogical capital and in the formation of the pedagogical habitus in stricto sensu graduate studies a highly relevant stage.
Pedagogical formation; Teacher education; Higher education teaching; Graduate studies