Contributions To devise Psychologist Practice Of Education In Colombia

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  • Núria Castells Gómez Universidad de Barcelona

Abstract

This article presents a general review of educational psychology practice in Colombia, where psychologists are traditionally formed under the conception of punctual interventions on specific aspects of the dynamic of education, but which leaves out other elements of this system. In order to overcome this situation the adoption of a constructivist - systemic perspective is proposed which will enhance the change of model in intervention. This change would allow to go beyond clinical and assistant positions, and at the same time to take a closer step to an educative and constructive model offering tools for the reconceptualization of intervention from three perspectives: preventive, corrective and enriching. To allow understanding of this change process, the intervention proposal developed delimits the psychologists routine and enables the comprehension of the educational system as a whole in which s/he is a constitutive part, and in this way it will be possible to abandon the psychologists redeeming vision that is normally held.

Author Biography

Núria Castells Gómez, Universidad de Barcelona

Profesora asociada del Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación de la
Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Barcelona

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