A terra nova: ocupação produtiva do território e escola rural em Goiás (1961-1985)

Abstract

This research presents a study about the link between Rural School and Productive Expansion of land as mechanisms of governmentality in Goiás during the period of the Military Dictatorship. The research problematic analyzes the discursive formation formulated around the settlement of Goiás in the twentieth century in opposition to the governmental discourse on the rural primary school and its conditions of existence in the period 1961-1985. The study presents the deconstruction of the logic of absence, given that in Goian territory there was a movement of pedagogical organization and an increase in school supply. Thus, we investigated the existence of the rural school in the context of the Military Dictatorship and its relation with the productive occupation of the Goian territory, trying to identify which regime of truth about the primary school in Goiás in the period. The sources studied were the Messages of the Governors of Goiás in the period 1961-1985, taking up the problem of productive expansion, primary school, conceptions of territory and population permeated by the republican ideal. In this conjuncture there was expansion of the agricultural frontier in Goiás, increase of the rural schools, actions that aimed the fixation of the man in the field. Under the Foucaultian approach, the research analyzed the relationship between rural school and productive expansion as mechanisms of governmentality for the population and territory in the preambles of the second half of the twentieth century until the end of the Military Dictatorship (1985). Through the concepts of biopolitics, discourse analysis, Michel Foucault's governmentality devices it was possible to observe the role of rural school and land occupation projects as power devices for the government of the population of Goiás during the period studied here.