Abstract

FIGUEIREDO, Nilzilene Gomes de. The offer of higher education by Amazonian countryside Federal Universities: from UFPA to UFOPA in Santarém-PA/Brazil. Rev. Exitus [online]. 2020, vol.10, e020098.  Epub Mar 30, 2022. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/2237-9460.2020v10n1id1285.

This work has as objective to make a historical reconstruction of higher education offer in Brazilian Amazon and understand the process of internalization of Federal Institutions of Higher Education (IFES) in the region from 1970 to 2009, especially in Santarem, west of Pará. It is supported by theses, dissertations, articles, official documents, and newspaper reports from the 90′s which portray the scenario. It is observed that UFPA was a pioneer in offering higher education in the Brazilian Amazon when it appeared in Belem in 1957 and strongly influencing other states in the process of expanding its courses to the inside (interiorization). The arrival of higher education at the undergraduate level in Santarem, which emerged as courses offered by UFPA in the early 1970s, but which became more effective when the interior design projects at UFPA, which led to the creation of a university campus in Santarem in 1986, which helped to train many professionals in the region, especially teachers whose demand in Pará was alarming at that time, which lasted for many years. The historic struggle of local communities for public higher quality education and development policies of the federal government for higher education both allowed the consolidation of UFPA courses in Santarém as promoted the creation of a federal institution based in Santarém in 2009, the University Federal west of Pará (UFOPA), which continued the training of professionals in the region, reaching a much greater demand for students from all over the west of Pará.

Keywords : Higher Education; Amazon; Educational Institutions; Development Policy.

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