Abstract

MARTINS, Ernesto Candeias. Paedology as a polygraph of pedagogy (psycho-pedagogical assumptions) in Faria de Vasconcelos (1880-1939). Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2021, vol.20, e051.  Epub Jan 29, 2022. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v20-2021-51.

The study, of a historical-descriptive nature in the area of the History of Education, addresses the psycho-pedagogical assumptions of ‘Pedology’, as a child development science founded in Pedagogy, proposed by the pedagogue Portuguese Faria de Vasconcelos. Based on a hermeneutic methodology, we will analyse and reflect the content of these aspects in his work and use secondary sources on this subject. This pedagogue impregnated with ideas from the New School Movement, associated with his experience in Bierges (Belgium), contributes to the scientific study of children/childhood. Therefore, the two points of the structure of the text coincide with the established objectives: to analyse the Pedagogy based on Pedology, in the study of the child's development, based on experimental pedagogy; to interpret the psycho-pedagogical assumptions of the child's growth and autonomy, the physical-psychic functions (principles: continuity and solidarity) and anthropological humanism. Vasconcelos is one of the promoters of Paidotécnia and psychopedagogy in the study of school children in the History of Education in Portugal.

Keywords : Faria de Vasconcelos; Paedology; New School ideas.

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