Abstract

ZAMPRONHA, Maria Amélia Güllnitz  and  SASS, Odair. Contributions of Psychology to education: Dante Moreira Leite's social critique. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.spe, pp. 1257-1278. ISSN 1808-4281.

Here we discuss the contributions of Psychology to education, as formulated by Dante Moreira Leite, an important Brazilian intellectual and psychologist. Our objective is to analyse the social critique elaborated by this researcher, regarding its potentials and limits, relating it to the main conclusions of critical theory of society, as stablished by the authors of the first generation. Although Dante discusses fundamental problems of national education, here we highlight his studies regarding ideology and prejudice, whose manifestations are psychological, but origins are social. The author makes propositions with the intention of motivating the students, keeping them in school and promoting their apprenticeship, preparing the teacher, also advocating pedagogical measures that are until this day under discussion. However, it is noted that his propositions relate more to adaptation to the current social order than to the criticism of that order.

Keywords : Dante Moreira Leite; psychology; education; ideology; prejudice.

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