O Ministério da Agricultura, Indústria e Comércio e a expansão do ensino profissional: ações e concepções (1909-1930)

Abstract

We aimed to analyze the actions of the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce for the expansion of professional education, as well as the teaching concepts that influenced these actions. The time cut was attributed taking into account the organization of the Ministry, installed in 1909 and reorganized in 1930. The documentary research was carried out in the annual reports presented by the ministers to the presidents of the Republic. The theoretical framework is part of the political history dimension according to Rémond (2003) and Barros (2005) and in the field of the History of Professional Education according to Ciavatta (2019). We conclude that the Ministry has created and subsidized educational institutions and professional courses in the three areas that were within its jurisdiction, namely: agricultural education, industrial education and commercial education. Federal agricultural schools were not created in all states. In industrial education there was the creation of a federal education network that covered the entire Brazilian territory. With regard to commercial education, no commercial schools were created by the Ministry, their incidence on this education was restricted to subsidies and regulation.