Constituição do ensino superior em Bento Gonçalves/RS : Fundação Educacional da Região dos Vinhedos (1955-1972)

Abstract

This dissertation investigated the process of constitution of High Education in the municipality of Bento Gonçalves/RS, in the decades of 1950 to 1970, directly observing the creation of Fundação Educacional da Região dos Vinhedos. This study was developed within the line of research History and Philiosophy of Education, of the Program of Post-Graduation in Education of Universidade de Caxias do Sul. The temporal cut of the study is the year of 1955, when the first articulation of teachers of Model Office Félix Faccenda occurred, with the aim of installing a high education course in this municipality up to 1972, when Fundação Educacional da Região dos Vinhedos (Educational Foundation of Wineries’ Region) (FERVI) was founded. This work was based on the Cultural History approach, related to History of Education, supported by authors as Chartier (1991, 2002), Certeau (2002, 2012), Burke (2008, 2011), among others. The methodology used was document analysis and oral history. To make Document Analysis effective, the study was supported on Le Goff (1996), Alberti (2004), Bacellar (2010), and on Oral History, on Le Goff (1996), Halbwachs (2006), Meihy (2005). Regarding categories for analysis for the research, the authors selected to base it on are Gomes and Hansen (2016) to understand culture mediators, Sirinelli (2003), for comprehension of sociability networks, and Foucault (2017) to establish existing power relationships in the process of constitution of High Education in Bento Gonçalves. The narrative referred made possible the comprehension of the historic context of the municipality in the period of the temporal cut mentioned, as well as the emergence and articulations made to obtain the first high education course. Besides, it was possible to understand the process of consolidation of high education, with the emergence of the High Education Institution, FERVI, was made effective with the involvement of Bento Gonçalves community. The constitution of High Education was possible to occur due to the initiative an articulation of two groups of culture mediators, (a) educational leaders, (b) political leaders, and also, due to the links established in its social networks. Power relations permeated all the process of constitution of High Education in the municipality. The peak of the process of constitution was the installation of the University “Campus”, Bento Gonçalves, as an extension of Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS) and the course of Economic Sciences, located at the School of Viticulture and Oenology (Escola de Viticultura e Enologia) (EVE) of the municipality. The act of its installation represented an alliance among UCS, EVE, and culture mediators of the municipality. From that moment on, other courses were installed, as Modern Languages and Sciences, in 1970, concerned with meeting the demand by the female public and teacher education. The graduation of the first group of economists, from the first course, in 1971, contributed for the recognition of the course by the Ministry of Education and Culture, and in 1972, FERVI was created, as a keeper for high education courses, and it became an Isolated High Education Institution. It was constituted by the efforts of merchants, public servants, political leaders, educational and especially the business community, that supported and participated in the project of the cultural mediators.