Escola de economia rural doméstica: ensino secundário profissionalizante no Triângulo Mineiro (1953-1997)

Abstract

Agostinho Zago, in 1953, founded the Training Center on Rural Domestic Economy at Tuticorin, in Triangulo Mineiro, to teach courses for women aimed at the domestic schooling. This center became the Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology of Triangulo Mineiro. The research aimed to reconstruct as far as documentation and testimonies allowed to trace the path and trajectory of the school until 1997 when the course ended and Home Economics, that for many girls, became the instrument of education, social and professional initiation. By mapping the institution what was sought to contribute to the memory register and functionality of the institution in professional education, local and regional level, in particular in the educational background of women. Some questions were raised: What is the identity of the school of home economics? What technical training, vocational and general education offered? The research made use of written sources and documentary as regiments, books, records, arrays curriculum, degree programs, local news and official, photographs and other documents. Also counted with testimonies of servers who worked at the institution. The discussions were bristling from a historical perspective to describe the route of secondary vocational education for women. The belief that has been reached is that the direction of female education were based on educational action with consequences. Created to get young people and prepare them for the performance of traditionally prescribed female roles: mother, wife and educator, the consolidation of the School of Home Economics represented the practical expression of tacit alliance between the state and the oligarchy uberabense who sought an education for conservative his daughters, a strategic basis for the program of civilization of society through schooling.