Elements of professionality in nineteenth-century linear drawing books

Abstract

The article investigates elements of professionality identified in four Brazilian textbooks of Linear Drawing for
elementary school and its teacher’s training in the nineteenth century. This notion considers the contents and the
adequacy of the same to the students in each series - level of schooling, the methods for learning, the indicated
materials, among other aspects. It also sought to identify beyond the Linear Drawing as a subject, the knowledge
to teach, those that are most directly aligned with the teaching profession. The Linear Drawing to teach in all of
them refers to the study of plane figures - lines, polygons and curves -; and polyhedra and round bodies, without
concern for the calculation of quantities such as perimeter, area and volume. The specific marks of each one of
the analyzed works become more evident with respect to the methodological questions - Linear Design to teach.