Psicologia e psicologia escolar: crise de identidade profissional e perspectivas

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to raise questions concerning the crisis of identity confronted by Psychology as a science. The problem is analysed in a historical perspective as the socia-economic and political conditionings attending the raising of "scientific" psychology. Having this analysis as a basis, questions are examined which are directly connected to the identity of the psychologist, especially the school psychologist: formal education, theoretical and practical patterns adopted, ideological commitment. While making allowance for the compexity fo the problem, the author emphasixes the need for an engagement on the part of psychologists in formulating a sicentific psychology, theoretically and practically consistent, fundamented on a materialistic and dialeectic concepetlon of history, Initatives in the area of School Psychology taken within the Federal University of Ceará are presented as part of the practcal actions proposed within the perspective expounded above.