Abstract
According to the historiography of Brazilian education, there were many actions related to the forms of training primary school teachers during the imperial period. The majority of these studies are centred on teacher training linked to the institution of the teacher training college ( escola normal ). However, a smaller number of studies discuss another aspect of teacher training throughout the 19th century, namely, the way in which subjects who did not attend that institutional space (the escola normal ) became primary school teachers. This article shares this perspective and looks into forms of training primary school teachers through practice in Paraná in the second half of the 19th century, based on the understanding that this type of training marked a period in which public education was becoming consolidated in the midst of actions, deliberations, difficulties and tensions in the attempt to improve public education conditions. This study made use of education legislation of the period as well as documents produced by subjects involved in public education at that time and available at the Paraná Public Archives. Through the collation and analysis of the sources, it can be stated that the training of primary school teachers through practice in the province of Paraná took place during the development of the process which lead to the constitution of formal primary teacher training.
Teacher training; Teaching profession; 19th Century; Province of Paraná