Significando práticas e praticando significações: quais os significados para o trabalho docente?

O psicólogo angolano Felizardo Tchiengo Bartolomeu Costa, que atua na formação de professores em seu país, compara neste livro o modo como os professores de Angola pensam sua profissão com a forma como a percebem os professores do Brasil. E também promove uma ampla discussão sobre a subjetividade e o trabalho no mundo atual, a partir das experiências desses docentes. A obra busca entender o significado do trabalho para professores da rede pública dos dois países, analisando fatores relacionados ao propósito social, aspectos morais, oportunidade de desenvolvimento de potencialidades pessoais, autonomia, centralidade do trabalho, bem-estar psicológico e reconhecimento. Foram escolhidas classes do primeiro ciclo do ensino primário de duas escolas de ensino fundamental e médio, uma do município paulista de Assis e outra do município dos Gambos, na província de Huíla. De acordo com Costa, a inclusão da escola angolana no estudo deve-se à sua experiência como professor de ensino fundamental em Angola e a seu interesse em abrir um campo de pesquisas sobre o significado do trabalho naquele país que contextualizasse seus aspectos socioculturais, políticos e econômicos. Com o livro, Costa busca suprir a falta de estudos estratégicos para o desenvolvimento de Angola, escassos como reflexo, ainda, dos trinta anos de guerra civil, conflito que encerrado em 2002

A relação sujeito-objeto e a unidade afetivo-cognitiva: contribuições para a psicologia e para a educação

The relationship between affective-emotional problems and school learning is present in areas of Psychology and Education. In the present study, of theoretical and bibliographic characteristics, we investigated elements that might confirm the thesis of the historicity of cognitive and affective processes, giving to these processes a social and symbolic connotation . Through the Historic-Cultural Psychology we approached the subject-object relationship and affective-cognitive unit proposing to overcome the subjectivist and organicist thinking. The study suggested the importance for us to (re) think the relationships that the subject establishes with the environment, the role of knowledge and practical conditions of life and education. Besides, it highlighted the activity as a main category in the constitution of needs and motives, as well in the formation of desires and the objectification of them. In this way, it enhances the learning and promotes the development, considering that the formation of subjectivity in each subject is the effect of an educative process that shall be object of study of both Psychology and Education.

O cientificismo como obstáculo à compreensão ético-política da Psicologia

In separating the phenomena of their social, human, and ecological contexts, and by not taking into account intentional and valorative categories, natural-scientific methodologies impede the comprehension of some human activities which include values, chiefly ethical and political. In this context, scientism is the dogmatic and non-thematized acceptance of natural-scientific methods. From this point on, in the context of psychology, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate how scientism can function as an epistemological and methodological obstacle to an ethical and political understanding of psychology. Thus, at first, through reflections based on problems encountered in the literature on the subject, scientism's dogmas and some counterpoints are presented; some of its consequences are addressed, by taking up two examples from current literature - the labeling and the racial interpretations, and, finally, a program of research which deals with these problems is presented as an alternative: critical psychology.

Anísio Teixeira e a Psicologia: o valor da mensuração

This article analyzes the ideas and the work of Anísio Teixeira in the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on his views about the value of measurement for educational reform in Brazil. Considering that the thinking and practices of Teixeira should be understood in the context in which it was developed, the study presents the history of the presence of psychological knowledge in education, with special attention to the entrance of the Psychometrics in the New School movement. The paper concludes that, by defending the use of measurement, Teixeira has remained true to the goal of the New School that required to diagnoses scientifically the school universe, which was necessary to respond to the growing demand for schooling and the educational disabilities of the Brazilian educational institutions.

O Teatro Fórum como dispositivo de discussão da violência contra a mulher

This article presents the results of a study that made use of the Theatre of the Oppressed, in its Forum Theatre form, to promote discussions and reflections on violence against women. This was achieved through a sketch about the theme shown to a group of recyclable material collectors from two towns in the interior of the State of São Paulo. In the Forum Theatre the spectators become actors/actresses and, through the activity, help to find a solution for the enacted conflict. The results of the study suggest that the Theatre of the Oppressed can be used as an important methodological procedure for research. In the field of Psychology specifically, this theatrical tool emerges as an alternative device in order to work with participative studies involving diverse themes and issues of a community, producing ruptures in hegemonic practices and discourses.

Método de pesquisa da temática deficiência nos currículos de psicologia

The curricula study allows the verification of trends, concepts and the identification of teaching practices, enabling the planning and implementation of changes when necessary. The material presented here is part of the results obtained in a postgraduate research that deals with the training of psychologists to work with people with disabilities, which appealed to the document analysis. To accomplish this task it was used a methodological procedure named searching through radical, which allowed greater agility to the search, enabling the quick identification of the courses containing topics of interest for research, facilitating their selection to study. The use of document analysis as a methodology allowed both the collection and organization of information that were diffused, providing them new configuration as source of information, as the processing and interpretation of the raw data, giving them direction and adding them value. In 36 courses, 35 had at least one subject related to persons with disabilities, and the sum of these resulted in 85 subjects for analysis. The interpretation of data obtained through reading the menus brought information about prevalent intentions on the menus of the subjects, to research in the area, teaching procedures, techniques and possibilities of action and insertion of psychologists in different contexts in which they can deal with disability. In a positive perspective, the results showed that there seems to be a tendency to enhance the interface of psychology with other knowledge areas to understand the issues related to disability.

Concepção de professores acerca dos conflitos interpessoais entre crianças

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

O imaginário coletivo de estudantes de psicologia sobre distúrbios psicossomáticos

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

Uma análise dos efeitos do uso a longo prazo de antidepressivos

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

D. B. Elkonin: vida e obra de um autor da psicologia histórico-cultural

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

Cinema documentário e escrita da história: os filmes do conflito em Oka de Alanis Obomsawin

Pós-graduação em História - FCLAS

Formação em Psicologia: discursos e saberes sobre experimentações de gênero

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Formação profissional e conceitos de moral e ética em estudantes de psicologia

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

O Modelo Grupo Prático de Deslocamentos em Psicologia e Epistemologia Genéticas e sua Formalização

In this article, we aim to describe and explain what is the model “practical group of displacements”, introduced in 1937 by Piaget’s work La construction du reel chez l’enfant (Neuchâtel, Paris: Delachaux et Niestlé), essential to comprehension of the construction of space. To this end, we introduce the mathematical notation to describe it, we give the meaning of this notation in the child’s behavior and explains the mathematical structure of group underlying the model.

Memória, envelhecimento e qualidade de vida: a perspectiva da psicologia cognitiva

The concern with aging has increased in recent decades throughout the world, before the gradual increase in life expectancy of the population. Researchers have been developing a diverse in nature, in order to subsidize the activities of professionals in the field of Gerontology to promote autonomy, preservation of cognitive functions and thus contribute to healthy aging. This article presents a review of the literature on memory and aging from the perspective of cognitive psychology. The bibliography contains studies focusing on different subjects, in this sense. A significant number of works have been undertaken in order to investigate mechanisms and benefits of training on memory in healthy elderly and / or cognitive improvement. A concept that deserves attention in such studies is the study of aspects of meta-memory. However, there are still relatively few controlled studies on the subject.