História do Instituto Zootécnico de Uberaba : uma instituição de educação rural superior (1892-1912)

Abstract

This paper aims to present the current state of the research project in development, entitled History of the Office of Zootechnic Uberaba: An Institution of Rural Higher Education (1892- 1912), under the guidance of Prof. Abraham of Dr. Vera Lucia Borges. This is a search inserted into the theme of History of schools. The focus of this project focuses on higher education geared to the rural area, a period in which Brazil passed by two major changes: social, due to the abolition of slavery, and politics, with the advent of the proclamation of the Republic. The importance of searching the Office of Uberaba Zootechnic is to understand the causes of the installation of higher education within the Central Brazil, especially vocational education geared to the rural area. The Office of Uberaba Zootechnic was inaugurated in August 1895 and was initially in a class composed it are nineteen students, with the aim of educating professionals scientifically prepared to guide the livestock production. A single group able to form and only eight received the diploma of agriculturist, in 1898. Aimed to interpret the history of the Institute Zootechnic of Uberaba, covering the period of their origin (creation and installation), operation, suspension of activities and final extinction, which is 1892 to 1912. The research is based on the survey, the collection, organization and analysis of the sources found in different places, such as Public Archive of Uberaba, Mineiro Public Archive, Museum and Art Folk Dance Ruy Menezes - Barretos, São Paulo, the Academy of Arts Triangle Mineiro, Museum of Mining Newspaper library and MADA, as well as sources that integrate personal files. The steps proposed are methodological collection, study, analysis and interpretation of primary and secondary sources found on the object of this research. The theoretical reference was made in the study of books, theses and author of several monographs, referring to the theoretical and methodological contexts and the Brazilian miner and the period under study and also focused on the theme. With regard to results, we can not say much, because the project has not yet been completed. Without compromising too, emphasizes the importance of the creation of the Office of Uberaba Zootechnic to have contributed to the modernization of the rural work in the city of Uberaba, one city predominantly agro-pastoral economy, located in the Mining Triangle, Estate of Minas Gerais.