Higher Education; Institutionalization; Affirmative Action; Quota Policy.

Abstract

This research report is inserted in the History, Policies and Education Research Line of the Graduate Program in Education of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande’s Campus. The object of research is the installation and consolidation of the Escola Normal Dom Aquino Corrêa, in Três Lagoas, south of Mato Grosso, during the period in which it operated, between 1952 and 1975. The general objective is to identify the determinations of that historical moment for politics of teacher training, according to the implementation of the Três Lagoas’s Normal School, evidencing the relations of this institution with the educational policy of the country and the state of Mato Grosso. As a methodology, we adopt the theoretical-methodological materialistic dialectic, the examination of documents collected at the Escola Estadual Dom Aquino Corrêa, the analysis of interviews with ex-normalists, the use of primary sources, such as reports of Mato Grosso’s governors and the search for bibliographies that deal with the theme. Like a result, we pointed out that the creation of the institution was due to the economic development processes of the municipality. Enrollments grew considerably from the moment the Brazilian State diagnosed that institutions needed to emphasize the processes that would lead to Brazilian development. The Escola Normal Dom Aquino Corrêa was frequented mainly by daughters of railroaders, farmers and merchants. It arose because of the necessity to educate the working class.