The circulation of the teaching of drawing and ferdinand buisson’s and rui barbosa’s roles in the construction of national models (in the last decades of the 19th century)

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The present paper aimed at analyzing the circulation of the teaching of drawing in the last decades of the nineteenth century, from the intellectual borrowings and exchanges made possible by the universal exhibitions and the teaching reports. The methodological intention was to understand the teaching of Drawing through the reading and appropriation carried out by the French intellectual pedagogue Ferdinand Buisson and by the Brazilian intellectual and reformer Rui Barbosa. Within an international perspective of the construction of modern school knowledge, we observed that the teaching of Drawing conquered a central role in these studies as an element of reference for these countries’ progress and modernization. Thus, this pedagogical knowledge expressed the expectations for a great educational renewal in the midst of a set of extremely important intellectual transformations and exchanges in the international teaching circuit and unparalleled school reforms.