The department of design of UFPR and teaching in the graduation as definition of its trajectory (1974-1993)

Abstract

This work focus the teachers group and the undergraduate educational structure during the period from 1974 to 1993 of the Drawing Departament (DDES) in the Federal University of Paraná, when the extension and research activities were isolated and occasional, thereby a portion of the study topics are based on the syllabus alignment and the teaching staff training. The discussion has theoretical contributions the praxiological theory and the trajectory concept from Pierre Bourdieu and the configuration idea from Norbert Elias, to understand that this higher education institution history complies with its agents posts within the university fieldwork represented by the microuniverse of the Exact Sciences Sector. It was found that the DDES founders’ teachers were affiliated to the Mathematics Institute, and most of them graduated in Engineering. In the sequence along these two decades there was an entry of teachers from 1992 and 1993. The relationship with undergraduated curses, disciplines and classes did not present changes in this period. The DDES presents among the offered subjects three basic contents: Geometric Design, Descriptive Geometry and Technical Design. These subjects were distributed in 14 undergraduate courses.