CONTRIBUTIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY TO TEACHER TRAINING

Abstract

This work aimed to present the psychological theories about learning and development related to education and the teacher training process at a higher level. The research sought to highlight the elements of educational training that contribute to the difficulty of appropriating the knowledge of scientific psychology during the teacher training process. In everyday teaching practice, in undergraduate courses, it is possible to observe the growing devaluation of scientific psychology as an element in the formation of educational professionals. Thus, the teaching of psychology and the indifference about the content taught in undergraduate courses led to the following research question: what are the contributions of scientific psychology to the formation of teachers in undergraduate courses? To answer the research question, this article relied on a bibliographic research, using classical theories of psychology by Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky and Burros Fridrich Skinner related to the educational process.