An Agronomy School for the Amazon: elements of implementation of Higher Agricultural Education in the Northern region of Brazil (1945-1972)

Abstract

This historiographical study is based on the Escola de Agronomia da Amazônia (EAA), created in 1945. The time frame corresponds to the school's existence, from 1945 to 1972. The research falls within the field of History of Education and uses Oral History as its methodology; iconographic documents, newspaper articles, legislation of the time and official documents were added to the empirical evidence of memory narratives. The research objectives are related to the possibility of identifying the conditions that led to the implementation of a higher education school of Agronomy in Belém do Pará and the elements that motivated its establishment, between the 1940s and 1950s. In this way, its establishment process is also examined. As the memories advance, in a process of reminiscences, the narratives indicate that it was a school which provided considerable support for the development of education, as it was an institution that acquired academic fame and prestige.