This paper discusses the centrality of Pedagogy in the formulation and implementation of policies to train education professionals that express a wider political-pedagogical project of the university institution. It explores the sociopolitical and educational context, university pedagogy and the impossibility to separate teaching-research-extension entailed by the transversality of both pedagogy and the possible inter-transdisciplinarity between knowledge areas in universities to question the actualization of such policies in the Instituições Federais de Ensino Superior (IFES - Federal Institutions of Higher Education). It reflects about the needs to realize this policy with the democratic management, group work, continuous assessment and teaching principles as a horizon.
Pedagogy; Colleges; Policies to train education professionals; Political-pedagogical project; Educational and teaching management