Teaching social community psychological: some issues

Authors

  • Maritza Montero Universidad Central de Venezuela
  • Fernando Giuliani Universidad Central de Venezuela

Keywords:

Psicología comunitaria, enseñanza, comunity psychology, teaching

Abstract

The process of development of community psychology shows a growing methodological and theoretical complexity. In such process, a permanent critical reflection based on the experience obtained in the community and on the research conducted in the different themes that support such discipline, has been generated. The authors' line of work is supported on a permanent accivity within the communities' context as well as on me teaching field, maintaining a constant concern about the compromise acquired with the communities and about the discipline itself. Within this same scenario, some elements related to the formation of community psychologists are revised as a results of the importance of the role such psychologists must play, as well as of the need for formation programs that maintain high-quality standards. Considering our teaching experience, we present some topics that result critical in the teaching of community psychology, such as the difficulty to level the academic periods with communities' "rhythms;" the reciprocal nature of the process of familiarization; the students' reach of compromise; the role of the graduate individual sustained by the traditional college formation, and his/her opposition to the rendering of knowledge, as proposed by the discipline itself, among others.

Author Biographies

  • Maritza Montero, Universidad Central de Venezuela

     

    Abogada y psicóloga. Magister en Psicología y Ph.D. en Ciencias Sociales. Docente de la
    Universidad Central de Venezuela

     

  • Fernando Giuliani, Universidad Central de Venezuela
    Abogado en ejercicio en Venezuela.

Published

2010-08-18

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