This article analyzes the Curriculum Guidelines for the Pedagogy Course, which were developed by the National Council of Education. It discusses some conception and principle issues on the strategies of the training of education professionals according to these Guidelines and the administration of education that is the source of such training. Its reference is the theory according to which the relevant and unquestionable importance of the training of education professionals is placed under the responsibility and commitment of citizenship training, as stated in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Brazil and in the Charter of Brazilian Education. This is the commitment of the education administration exercised by the teacher acting in classrooms. It contains the spirit and the contents of the pedagogic political project that expresses the commitments and direction of school through the administration of teaching, of classrooms, of relationships, of the process of knowledge acquisition, that is, the administration of citizenship training. Such conception is implicitly and explicitly present in the whole text of the Guidelines.
Pedagogy; Pedagogy Curriculum Guidelines; Education administration; Training; Education policy