Os cursos de Geografia por dentro das universidades mineiras: modernidade científica para um projeto territorial

Abstract

The Geography courses in Brazil played a role of great importance, not only for the training of graduates and university graduates, but also in the preparation of researchers responsible for conducting research on Brazilian territory, essential for the unveiling of the national reality. Think the public university in the Brazilian context requires an exercise of reflection on the construction of a supported project of modernity, largely on the basis of scientific development. In the quest for overcoming the \"delay\" that pervaded the economic, political and social field, the installation of higher education institutions in Brazil played a decisive role in the (re) organization territory. The expansion of universities from the inside, followed by the installation of Geography courses showed a strategic articulation undertaken by the federal government, in partnership with state governments. Allies the existence of a set of interfaces with several areas of scientific knowledge, geographical science stimulates the deepening of the knowledge produced, as well as opening new paths that provide the theoretical and methodological improvement and introduction of new technologies for analysis and interpretation space. In Minas Gerais, the efforts towards the resumption of economic development through integration of different regions of the state, found support in Geography courses allocated to various institutions, especially the Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, University Estadual de Montes Claros - UNIMONTES, and the Federal University of Uberlândia - UFU. For the purposes of this research, will stick to on the Geography courses these institutions, trying to analyze the role played by Geography courses in these universities and what the consequences were for the modernization of the mining territory.