Psychology, education and history: the paths offered by social studies of science to analyze the mobilization of conceptual and practice devices
<p>This paper provides a reflection about the way in which the analysis of the history of psychology in Colombia has been constituted. It contributes a conceptual development to the classical tradition of viewing history as a reference to moments and “heroic” characters, neglecting analytical...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad Santo Tomás
2015-07-01
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| Series: | Summa Psicologica UST |
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| Online Access: | http://summapsicologica.cl/index.php/summa/article/view/241 |
| Summary: | <p>This paper provides a reflection about the way in which the analysis of the history of psychology in Colombia has been constituted. It contributes a conceptual development to the classical tradition of viewing history as a reference to moments and “heroic” characters, neglecting analytical possibilities around various narratives that enable a broad understanding of the movements of psychology as a space for social appropriation of knowledge, sociotechnical network building and practices of translation of interests. Through a brief exposition of the case of psychology and education at the Gimnasio Moderno School of Bogota in the early twentieth century, the way in which Social Studies of Science provide important tools in terms of their epistemology and methodology for monitoring concepts, practices, adaptations and staging of European developmental psychology in an educational institution where childhood is a “mandatory step” in narratives about modernization is presented.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 0718-0446 0719-448X |