The Institutionalization of Agricultural Teaching in Brazil and its Genesis

Abstract

This article's purpose is to analyze the process genesis of the institutionalization of agricultural teaching in Brazil. In order to do that, a brief collection of historical antecedents was made regarding the institutionalization of research and the agricultural teaching in general, period in which the culture in the fields was based in empiricism, secular tradition, and mysticism. Later, the compositions of the   institutionalization of agricultural teaching were analyzed, when those unsystematic activities passed for a rational institutionalization through scientific knowledge, demands that were generated in the paunch of the productive system modernization in capitalist centers, mainly after the first industrial revolution. In Brazil, this process was shy and had its genesis between the Pombaline reform period in 1772 and the coming of the royal family in 1808, when scientific societies and school research projects were created. At a later time, we analyzed the historical duality of the Brazilian agricultural teaching by means of two distinct projects, the first reserved to dominant classes by means of instruction to foremen and farm administrators, and the second destined to classes that performed manual labor in the field.

          Keywords:  Agricultural Teaching, foremanship, manual labor, and modernization.