Educação superior e desenvolvimento em Montes Claros/MG : a contribuição do curso de Geografia da FUNM (1964-1971)

Abstract

This work aims to present and discuss some issues concerning Higher Education in Northern Minas Gerais region, with emphasis on the Geography Course of FUNM, in the main city of region: Montes Claros (MG). The development in the 1960s, in the norte-mineira region, is exposed through industrialization via Superintendence of Northeast Development (SUDENE) and also represented through the implementation of the higher education that was a consequence of the joints and longings of political and economic elites to meet local and regional demand, being the higher education seen as social mobility and propelling of the regional development. The overall objective of this thesis is to understand how the higher teacher training policy adopted in the country influenced the Geography Course offered by FUNM in the period 1964-1971, emphasizing the unfoldings of thereof to the development of Montes Claros / MG. It constitute in evidencing, also, that the concepts of development manifested in the North of Minas Gerais, with highlight in Montes Claros (MG), correspond to the development manifested in the national context. Higher education in the North of Minas Gerais also accompanied the process of internalization of this level of education throughout Brazil, this development which sometimes manifested exclusionary and unequal. We established the Curricular Structure of the course as focus of analysis and we realized that the course of Geography of FUNM fully followed the opinion 412/1962, on which was signed the first minimum curriculum for the degree course in geography, who happened to have a duration of four years. Therefore, the methodology used consisted of various sources such as: legislation; ata of course implementation; local newspapers; data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - IBGE of the 1950s and 1960s from State of Minas Gerais; programs of the subjects of the first classes of the Geography Course from State of Minas Gerais; sites; memorialists books; theses; dissertations; work completion course and oral history. The relevance of this study is justified by presenting contributions to the theoretical debate and also geo-historical about the development of the city of Montes Claros (MG), besides the relation of this development with the implantation of the Superintendence of Northeast Development - SUDENE and the implantation of Faculty of Philosophy, Science and Letters - FAFIL belonging to the Norte-Mineira Foundation of Higher Education - FUNM / Course of Geography / licensure. The results obtained show that, within the time frame of this study, the graduates in geography had a strong presence in montesclarense society. The social recognition was visible both those linked to academia, as to connected to other professional areas, always guided by the visibility of Norte-Mineira Foundation of Higher Education, which has become regional point of reference in vocational training. Lastly, we point out that the role of the Degree Course in Geography of FUNM was fulfilled to train teachers to work in the norte-mineira region, contributing in fact to regional development.