Abstract

DEPAEPE, Marc; SIMON, Frank  and  GORP, Angelo Van. El evolucionismo y el desarrollo del pensamiento educacional en Bélgica antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Rev. Bras. Hist. Educ [online]. 2010, vol.10, n.03, pp.11-34. ISSN 2238-0094.

The article attempts to sketch a picture of the often ambivalent way in which psycho-pedagogical theory formation in Belgium was constructed before WW IIII. We consider Darwinism’s impact on it by means of three positions that we will take as marking the path for the development of our thought on the matter: 1) The “influence” of Darwin proceeded indirectly, via the mediation of other, foreign authors; 2) The ideological fault lines between Catholics and non-Catholics were drawn clearly in the Belgian reception of Darwin.; 3) The central figure in the historical process of “associating” with the theory of evolution in theory formation about education was that of “appropriation” in which diverse elements of evolutionism were taken out of their historical context and were “functionalistically” inserted into an alien environment.

Keywords : Darwinism; Eugenics; Frans de Hovre; Ovide Decroly; Psycho-Pedagogical Theory Formation.

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