Notas etnográficas sobre o surgimento dos cursos de formação de professores de ciências no semiárido baiano

This work presents notes on trajectories of institutions and subjects related to the emergence and development of the Science Courses in the semiarid region of Bahia. It is an ethnographic work, produced from 2011 to 2016 on the backing of contributions from Clifford Geertz, James Clifford, Marilyn Strathern, Mariza Peirano and Olivia Cunha.  The objective is to problematize statements that relate the genesis of the higher education in Bahia to teachers’ formation demand in an investigation which considers archives as ethnographic fields. The argument is that the Teacher Training Colleges marked the Science teacher’s formation in the semiarid region and qualified the emergence of the higher education related to the teacher training in the 1970s. The curricular reforms that gave the contours to the Science Courses and to the institutions to which they were tied to were stabilized by the State Government, but teachers, students, and the civil society disputed them.