SCHOOL AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

César Coll

Faculty of Psychology

University of Barcelona

ABSTRACT

The relationship between Psychology and Educational Sciences might be traced back to the 19th Century. During the second half of this century, School and Educational Psychology went thourgh considerable changes, achieving status and prestige, coping with and solving problems of varying complexity. The present paper describes characteristic features of research and practice. In Spain, the involvement of applied psychologists in different types of support activities to the General Education System was well in advance of the acceptance and consolidation of this field of speciality in Departments and Faculties of Psychology. Approximately one out of three practitioners have stable jobs in this field. The situation is quite different in universities where there still exists confusion between developmental, school and educational psychology. In the new curriculum, an introductory course in Educational Psychology is a basic subject for every student enrolled in a Faculty of Psychology. This fact will doubtless contribute to strengthening teaching and research lines in the near future.

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