Educators - Psychology and Education Archive

The impact of psychology on education

This article explores the impact of psychology on education, highlighting how an understanding of emotions, behavior, and learning difficulties has become essential in the school setting. The text reflects on the challenges faced by children and young people, such as school dropout, learning difficulties, and emotional problems, highlighting the importance of collaboration between education and psychology. It also emphasizes the need for inclusive education that takes into account the social, cultural, and individual diversity of students, promoting holistic human development and equal access to learning.

Discovering the meaning of life with Victor Frankl and Spiritism

What gives meaning to life in the face of suffering, loss, and existential crises? In this article, we reflect on this essential question based on the thinking of Viktor Frankl, founder of Logotherapy, in dialogue with the principles of Spiritism. By combining existential psychology and spirituality, the text addresses themes such as inner freedom, responsibility, transcendence, and spiritual growth. A current and profound reflection on the meaning of life as a path of learning, hope, and transformation.

The Psychology of Children and the Pedagogy of Édouard Claparède

Based on the principle that it is impossible to educate without first understanding the child, Claparède argues that child psychology should be the basis for all pedagogical practice. In this sense, his thinking breaks with the authoritarian and transmissive tradition of classical schooling and inaugurates a new paradigm, in which the student occupies a central place in the teaching-learning process.

Self-discovery and Spiritist Psychology: encountering who we are in essence

Self-discovery is a journey of inner healing. Psychology offers the tools to understand the mind; Spiritism offers the purpose that gives meaning to existence. To know oneself is to discover who we really are—spiritual beings in learning, destined for plenitude and light.

Jean Piaget’s 4 stages of cognitive development

A teoria de Piaget teve uma grande influência na maneira de pensar a educação, servindo de contraponto aos métodos do século XIX. Embora Piaget não tivesse interesse específico

Vygotsky’s contributions to the conception of inclusive education

Correlation between Henri Wallon’s Theory and Spiritist Education

Early in the 20th century, Henri Wallon, a child psychiatrist, was one of the
theorists who proposed changes in education. He claimed that emotions are
fundamental in the human development process. Is there any correlation
between Wallon's Theory and Spiritist Education? This is what we will find out
together.

Jean Piaget and the Spiritist Education

By Mônica Etes Jean Piaget took an early interest in knowing everything he had access to. Demonstrating extraordinary commitment in everything he did, at the

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