Reflexões acerca do Departamento de Psicologia da UFC: perfil de professores e alunos, condições físicas, atividades acadêmicas, percepção do curso, dificuldades e perspectivas

Abstract

This work is a result of a thoughtful consideration about the psychologist professional formation, as well as the difficulties in suggesting an effective curricular proposal which may improve the quality of this formation. Besidles aiming to get a better understanding of how the Departament of psychology of the Federal University of Ceará works, it aims to collect data which will certainly help improve the course above mentioned. The possibility of having psychologists working in university courses was also questioned. Questionaries answered by professors and students dealt with personal data, physical conditions, difficulties faced along the course, student's evaluation of the professors' work, professors' evalualion of lhe students' performance the theoretical approach of the course, etc. The analiysis of the data enabled us not only to have a more detailed understanding of the psychology course itself, but also to provide the deepening of matters related to the improvement of the teaching of psychology at the University, besides discussing lhe difficulties found by school psychologist.