Colégio Agrícola de Rio Verde: o processo de consolidação da educação profissional agrícola no sudoeste goiano (1967-1979)

Abstract

This work was proposed research the historical study of the Agricultural College of Rio Verde, which became operational in May 1967, in southwest Goiás, with the cut out the year 1967 with it s creation, and 1979, when the college was transformed into Agrotechnical School. The objective of the research is to analyze the trajectory of the Agricultural College of Rio Verde, emphasizing the process of creation, installation and consolidation in the period between 1967 and 1979, seeking to understand the implementation of this technical-vocational institution in the 1960 features such as approach, three stages, namely: the socioeconomic context of the area where the school was installed, justifying the need for professional training for agricultural work, and hand of local and regional skilled workforce, whose economic development was basically agricultural; a reflection on the history of agricultural vocational education in the region and in the country, emphasizing political and social aspects in their advances and retreats; and also the installation of the institution; and start of operations, their organizers and agents subject. The methodological path followed had as a starting point the documentary research, prioritizing the identification, selection, analysis and description of the Agricultural College documents Rio Verde, 1967-1979, are: Decrees, Laws, reports, letters, photographs, books registration tests of selection and registration, point of books, minutes of meetings, and visits to private collections in search of newspapers highlighted time, photographs, documents and school records. Correspondingly, the bibliographic reference analysis on the subject studied. These studies allowed the perception of the creation of the school as part of a political-economic planning deployed to meet regional and local needs, highlighting the uniqueness of the agricultural school culture in the institution that reveal stories, facts and relationships between all those involved in the processes of construction, implementation and consolidation of the college, among these relations, we find that the agricultural vocation of the region was essential for this institution to consolidate.