História e memória Universidade Federal de Goiás - regional Jataí

Abstract

This research is associated to the Stricto Sensu Graduate Program in Education at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás on the line of research: Education, Society and Culture. It is connected to the research group Education, History, Memory and Cultures in Different Social Spaces - EHMCES/HISTEDBR/PUCGO. The research theme is to verify the History and Memory Federal University of Goiás - Regional Jataí. The objective of the research was to investigate the process of implementation of public Higher Education in the Southwest of Goiás, focusing on the cities of Rio Verde and Jataí, during the period between 1978 and 1989. It starts with the following research problem: Jataí during this period, had a smaller population and lower economic development in relation Rio Verde, what would be the conditions for the creation of Federal Universities. However, in 1978, the city of Jataí created the first public University in the Southwest region. What did it happen that public Higher Education was not implemented in Rio Verde? What did it influence this conquest in the city of Jataí? Did the University contribute to the development of the city of Jataí? It was guided theoretically and methodologically by Oral History with an approach of the Evidence method. This thesis demonstrates, after analyzing documental and oral corpus, the historical, political and economic relations, which contributed to the implementation of Higher Education in the Southwest of Goiás, emphasizing the Federal University of Goiás - Regional Jataí. With this line of questioning, we obtained the following result: the political and economic power of Rio Verde were the impediments to the foundation of the Federal University of Goiás in the city. Contrary to what happened in Jataí, the political interest combined with the Extensionist Higher Education development programs for the country side, and the clientelist and patrimonialist issues influenced the implementation of the University. However, the presence of Advanced Campus of Jataí made it possible for the city to have national visibility, but it did not immediately impact the development of the city in terms of demographic growth, but the impact was perceived in the cultural scope, since the first courses made possible the professionalization and training of teachers, the majority of whom work for public schools. This research used the following authors as a theoretical apparatus: Cunha (1980), Baldino (1991), Magalhães (2004), Halbachs (2006)