EDUCATION AND AGRIBUSINESS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CAPITALIST PRODUCTION MODE: A CASE ANALYSIS IN PARAGUAY
This research has as its main objective to analyze the formation of students of the agronomic engineering course of the three main universities of Asunción (Universidad San Carlos, Universidad Católica and the Universidad Nacional de Asunción), as well as the professional performance of their graduates. Structuring the problematic of research based on the categories of Marxist analysis, such as capitalist mode of production, social division of labor and ideology, we intend to study and understand how education perpetuates and reproduces a specific mode of production in an exclusively agrarian country. , whose economic base is based on large estates and agribusiness, which is the main initial hypothesis. To this end, there will be a review of the existing literature on capitalist mode of production and the formation of knowledge in universities to understand the context in which Paraguayan education is inserted, especially the formation of knowledge in the field of agronomic engineering in the three universities, that constitute the case study of the research. In parallel, we will mobilize a qualitative methodology of systematic analysis of the political-pedagogical projects of these courses and conduct semi-structured interviews with graduates from each of the universities proposed to understand what these students understand about their own education and how the process took place. of knowledge building throughout the course. It is intended to deepen the studies on landlordism and agribusiness in Paraguay to understand how the specific economic needs of this mode of production define and presuppose the formation of professionals who work in the area.