TV Unicamp has just published a new edition of the program Pesquisa em Pauta, this time in the area of History of Education. Rodrigo Sarruge Molina's doctoral thesis, defended at the Faculty of Education and supervised by professor José Sanfelice, is the result of a decade of studies on the history of the “Luiz de Queiroz” Higher School of Agriculture, located in Piracicaba (SP). The researcher examined newspapers, dossiers, magazines, photographs, maps and minutes of the congregation, in addition to conducting interviews about the period of the military dictatorship (1964-1985), with the aim of relating higher education with agriculture and the political and economics of the military. “We see the clear objective of modernizing the countryside, although this is at the same time archaic, as it followed the mold of capitalism developed in Brazil”, observes Molina. The investigation seeks to elucidate how the “esalquians” resisted or contributed to the dictatorial project for rural areas, including emblematic passages such as the entry of several North American and far-right professors on campus, the creation of a nuclear energy course, the focus of teaching in agribusiness and even arresting students and teachers opposed to the regime.
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