The Inter-American College of Education: multinational project of improvement of specialized people in education, 1970/1977

Abstract

This paper has of reconstructing historically and critically Interamerican College of Education, convention/treaty OEA / MEC / UFSM starting from the context of Cold War and the determinations of the Politics of Integration of OEA as well as the politics of post graduation of Brazil. From these conditions, one looked for analyzing the development of the multinational project as well as investigating the reasons of its exaltation and execration which so many problems resulted in further periods. The analysis demonstrated that the exaltations were related to great, mediatic national and international projection of the involved community. However, the execrations were attributed to equivocated interpretations about the non credit of the course, since the process was not appreciated, but withdrew of CFE as a result of being a multinational project not subject to the legislation in effect. The non subordination to Brazilian rules created, however, an unusual situation, that is, the course was recognized as a result of a convention assigned by Brazil but not included in internal rules which provoked the non recognition of diplomas, causing new equivocal controversies and interpretations. The actual appreciation of the merit only occurred after the convention/treaty, when the course was included in the Brazilian legislation from 1978. Diplomas were valid four years after the end of the cooper.