Abstract

PACHECO TROCONIS, Germán  and  TAYLHARDAT, Leonardo. From utopia to reality: The process of institutionalization of the agronomy career in Latin American. The case of Venezuela. Tiempo y Espacio [online]. 2013, vol.23, n.59, pp.105-135. ISSN 1315-9496.

This paper presents the evolution of the sciences and especially those of importance to the agronomy. It is described the role and the work of the most important researches in the agricultural sciences development. There was reviewed and analyzed the process of establishment of agronomy studies in Latin America, in base of the experience of a group of leader countries in the agricultural studies progress. It is characterized the effect on the development of the agricultural due to the progress of the industrialized countries and the First World War. In the Venezuelan case it is made the description of the different measures, actions and projects, carried up by the State, beginning the process with intents to include at university level of courses on natural sciences with the entrance of the positivism philosophy, and the agricultural research and education development began with the erection of centers of experiment stations for agricultural research and late the agricultural education.

Keywords : Agricultural Education; Public Policy; Agricultural Sciences; Agronomy; Venezuela.

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