Organization and characters of primary agricultural professional training at the beginning of the 20th century: the AprendizadosAgrícolas

Abstract

In the first decades of the 20th century, following the promulgation of Law nº 8.319 of 1910, the Federal Government sought to structure professional agricultural education at a national level, creating AprendizadosAgrícolas, institutions created to develop the policy. primary agriculture. In this article, based on laws, decrees, ministerial reports and directors of AprendizadosAgrícolas, the structure of the courses and the clientele of these institutions are discussed, in addition to the amount of enrollment, approval and failure rates and other elements that help to understand these formative objects located between 1910 and 1934, the latter being the year in which reorganized the agricultural sector according to decree nº 24.115.