Vygotsky’s theoretical and methodological contributions to the practice and analysis of Psychology in Education

Abstract

This work was carried out by a study group from LIEPPE on Vygotsky and Marx to support the relevance of Cultural Historical Psychology, a theoretical approach that enables the comprehension between Psychology and Education to equip psychologists and teachers in their practices. It presents the approach that this study is based on, outlining four theses as a result of concise work. It proposes the dialectical historical materialism concept that enables both surpassed hegemonic concepts in Psychology that traditionally seek causes of school failure on individual process, and concepts that decline its theoretical and methodological specificities as science, in favor of reporting problems in school contexts in preference to a conceptual preparation of educational processes. This approach allows School Psychology workers a committed practice to human emancipation that will only be achieved with the surpassing of the capitalist mode of production towards creating a new society.