Official colonization and agrarian schooling: debates, projects and institutions (Entre Ríos, 1930-1943)

Abstract

During the 1930s, the governments of the province of Entre Ríos promoted an agrarian policy that articulated the distribution of land, the training of farmers and cooperativism -Law 2985/1934 -which constituted a precedent of similar legislation that was implemented in other jurisdictions. This public policy was investigated from the agrarian history, highlighting its integral character and economic and social contributions in a context of crisis. However, the educational components of it were explored tangentially, without delving into the characteristics assumed by agrarian and rural training. In this article we analyze the agro-technical schooling- of provincial character- the curricular changes that it experienced and its link with the economic demands. In addition, we reconstructed the provincial parliamentary agenda to expand teaching and agricultural research proposals. We maintain that, unlike the previous decades, in the periodization discussed here generated greater articulation with the agrarian policy, but the problems that this type of formation was going through, the consequences of the start of the Second War and the productive crisis were to the detriment of such purpose. The methodology used is qualitative and contributions from the social history of school institutions and the study of public policies are articulated from a subnational scale.