Dimensões contextuais e particulares do percurso histórico da disciplina Psicologia da Educação no curso de Pedagogia na cidade de Uberlândia, em Minas Gerais, Brasil (1959-2006)

Abstract

This thesis is inserted into the search field of the Disciplinary History and aims to investigate the trajectory of Educational Psychology in the oldest existing Pedagogy Course in Uberlândia-MG. The historical approach considers the period from the year 1959 until the year 2006, in which there have been several changes in the content of the discipline within the Faculty of Education, since its founding at the Faculty of Sciences, Letters and Philosophy, to its consolidation at the Federal University of Uberlândia. This research sought to understand important aspects in teaching of Educational Psychology, emphasizing the relationship between the prescribed curriculum content and pedagogical reality. In this sense, it started with a review of the literature on the object, doing the reading and analysis of historical materials of discipline, such as: course plans, teachings projects and regulations, and interviews with teachers and students who acted in the period surveyed. This study established the following categories of analysis of the discipline: the content taught; pedagogical practices in the classroom; the relationship between prescribed content and pedagogical reality; forms of assessment of learning; the relationship with other disciplines / interdisciplinary; the influence of curriculum standards and regulations; and bibliography. The results allowed the establishment of a timeline from the investigated object: Thus, the first period comprises the years 1959-1977, which was the initial development of Educational Psychology discipline in the Course of Pedagogy within the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Uberlândia (FFCLU) and the University of Uberlândia (UnU) in the two decades leading up to federalization process. As regards the second period, which lasted from 1978 to 1986, it was characterized by be a transition period in which the Pedagogy Course was attached to the Federal University of Uberlândia, with the systematic provision of training for specific qualifications on a semiannual basis, with the Psychology disciplines predominating in the basic cycle. Finally, the third period, between 1987 and 2006, in which there was a return to the annual regime in Pedagogy Course of UFU, on which the stabilization of the discipline Educational Psychology, with 240 h/a. Finally, it discussed the interaction between contextual and particular dimensions of the educator to teach an academic discipline, because the subjective interests often shared influence in setting menus, the syllabus and the bibliographic reference of academic disciplines. These interests direct the daily pedagogical interventions in implementing the prescribed content of a discipline, and must realize the dimension of context, for their impacts in the construction of subjectivity itself.