Uepa promotes Academic Week focusing on the appreciation of teaching degrees and challenges of Amazonian education

The State University of Pará (Uepa), through the Center for Social Sciences and Education (CCSE), is holding the 27th edition of its Academic Week from September 17 to 19, bringing together teachers, students, researchers, and extensionists around discussions on education, culture, and sustainability in the Amazon. The event opens this Tuesday (17) at 7 PM with the Pará Amazônico Concert at Theatro da Paz, with free admission.

With the theme "Education, Culture, Development, and Sustainability: academic production in 21st century Amazonia," the program is open to the public and aims to reflect on the contemporary challenges of teacher training, especially in light of the decline in interest in teaching degrees and the threat of a blackout of teachers in Brazilian basic education.

The opening ceremony will feature the Pará Amazônico Concert, which reinforces Uepa's commitment to valuing regional culture and integrating art and education. With a repertoire that transitions between classical and contemporary, the performance will include works by composers such as Waldemar Henrique, Altino Pimenta, Leonardo Coelho de Souza, and Urubatan Ferreira de Castro.

The concert will be performed by faculty, students, and researchers from the institution, including names like baritone Adnaldo Odair Souza and soprano Dione Colares, as well as the Uepa Madrigal, conducted by Professor Ana Maria de Castro Souza. Part of the program has already been presented in Paris, France, during the Printemps Brésilien, highlighting the international reach of Uepa's academic-cultural production.

Tickets for the concert are free and can be picked up up to two hours before the start of the show, directly at the box office of Theatro da Paz.

Lack of interest in teaching degrees worries specialists

One of the central points of the program is the alert about the decrease in demand for teaching degrees, the specific training for teachers. This topic will be discussed in the closing roundtable on Thursday (19) at 5 PM in the Paulo Freire auditorium, Campus I of Uepa.

The discussion will feature Professor Andréia Nunes Militão, a doctor in Education from UNESP and a faculty member at the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS). Militão is a national reference in teacher training policies and supervised internships.

According to the researcher, the reduction in interest in the teaching career cannot be resolved with isolated measures. "The decline in interest cannot be solved just with scholarships or advertisements. It is necessary to simultaneously invest in university infrastructure, realistic internship conditions, respectable career plans, and public policies that recognize the teacher as a central agent in educational construction," she stated.

Amazônia's reality demands specific solutions

In addition to the national diagnosis, the CCSE Academic Week invites reflection on the particularities of teacher training in the Amazon, where the distance between communities, cultural diversity, and infrastructure challenges require differentiated approaches to ensure access to quality education.

Uepa emphasizes that the event is not limited to a conventional academic program but represents a strategic space to think about structuring solutions that dialogue with the region's needs. By integrating culture and education, as in the Pará Amazônico Concert, the event also reaffirms that the act of educating goes beyond content: it involves sensitivity, identity, and belonging.

Service:
XXVII Academic Week of CCSE – Uepa
When? From September 17 to 19, 2025
Location: Paulo Freire auditorium – Campus I of Uepa (Tv. Djalma Dutra, s/n – Bairro do Telégrafo, Belém)
Opening concert at Theatro da Paz – 09/17, at 7 PM
Free admission – tickets for the concert available at the box office until 2 hours before the event
Registrations and complete program here