This research is inserted in the field of the History of the curriculum and has as its main objective to research what has changed and what is maintained in the curriculum identified as a result of the different official prescriptions which had been implemented in the institution currently called Escola Agrotecnica Federal de Castanhal (EAFC-PA), since its foundation on December 1st, 1921, as Patronato Agricola Manoel Barata, until the recent reforms implanted by the LDB nº 9394/1996. To carry out the collection of data on the History of the curriculum of this institution it was necessary a bibliographical revision and documentary research in the files of the institute, in the Public File of the State of Para and in the Department of Rare Workmanships of the CENTUR. This collection of data was carried out to select documents and iconographic sources on the institute related to the period researched. The bibliographical research subsidized the characterization and the events that had occurred
in the Brazilian and Paraense society of the researched period (1921-1996). After this datacollecting, the analysis we developed followed three axles of inquiry, first we searched to find out the socio-political-economic conditions in Brazil and in the State of Para during the Republic until the decade of 1990, after that we identified the politics that had been established for agricultural education, so that we could finally delimit which influences of this ampler reality in the official curriculum were adopted by the EAFC-PA. From the analyses
made in the curriculums prescribed adopted in the institute we conclude that throughout its existence, the EAFC-PA as an official institute of professional education in the Agriculture and Cattle area comes it has been adopting these curricular models to get adapted to the demands established by the social and economic projects of the Government at each time.
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