PSICOLOGIA ESCOLAR PARA QUÊ? A Formação e a Atuação do Psicólogo Escolar em Goiânia

Abstract

The School Psychology has been theme of many researchers and discussions, looking for to understand the existent relantionship between the Psychology and the Education, and the function carried out by the school psychologist. Howewer, it is believed that a lot of subjects about this professional’s identity still come confused and contradictory. The goal of this study was try to understand some of those subjects related with a formation and professional performance. The ivestigative process was permeated by a partner-historical man vision, based in the perspective of Vygotsky, being used as Epistomologic Qualitative methodology. The construction of the information was orientated for: a survey in the Goianiense educational context, one analyse about the presence of the School Psychology in the grating curriculum of the Psychology course in the University Catholic of Goiás, interviews with the teachers of that course, interviews with the school psychologist and discussions with a group of psychologists linked with the actual school psychology specialization course. The articulation of the different lifted up indicators to leave of these axes allowed to weave some considerations on as it is configured, in Goiânia, the formation processes and professional performance, which grow through a net establisched relantionship among the curriculum of those course (which embraces the grating curriculum and the action executes close to the teachers) and references of performance. The knowledge produced is this study raised reflections concerning the need of rethinking the formation process seeking a professional’s construction with a critical posture and changed, could contribute with the educational context through a significant performance, found in a conscious theoricmethodological base. It is believed therefore that such aim will only be able to be reached by the action of a group of professionals commited with the amplification of the School Psychology and with the professional’s insert in the educational context.