Os saberes psicológicos e a formação de professores em Minas Gerais entre o final do século XIX e o início do século XX

Abstract

This research aimed to carry out a study of the psychological knowledge that circulated at the Ouro Preto Teacher Training School in the period from 1890 to 1930. We based our study on the theoretical framework of the history of psychology and analysis of documents. Documents were found in three collections: Arquivo Público Mineiro - The Public Archives of Minas Gerais; files concerning the Ouro Preto Teacher Training School, which are currently kept at the State School Dom Veloso in Ouro Preto; and in the library of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Minas Gerais. The main objects of analysis were the students‟ assessments and results showed that, since the 1880 decade, with the inclusion of subjects bearing pedagogical issues in the syllabus of the Ouro Preto Teacher Training School, there had been the circulation of different types of psychological knowledge such as memory and intellectual faculties, which helped to train teachers and, furthermore, that psychology, as a specific area of knowledge, was already a part of this training.