The operation of the school and the acting of the psychologist: the pedagogical political project as the mediator of this relationship

Abstract

The Pedagogical Political Project (PPP) of a school is built based on the reflection about its finalities, as well as it explains the social role and it defines the paths and actions to be comprehended in the school dynamics. Gathering religions and knowledges about the user community even as the scientific and social context, the PPP constitutes as a pedagogical and political compromise with the society. The current study objectives to reflect about the PPP’s role of constructing an operation field of the Educational Psychology, denoting a needed mediation between the school’s pedagogical purpose and the psychologist’s work. It consists in an experience report from an academic work during the Scholastic/Education Psychology II course. All work was based on visits and interviewers in a public school, specialized in education for deaf students, located in Fortaleza, Ceará. The methodology of qualitative perspective consists in literature review, school observation and interviews with school’s employees. Then it was possible to comprehend the ways that the special education enhances the deaf students’ development and the Education Psychology’s relevance. This experience showed as an opportunity of reflecting about the relationship between psychology and education by analyzing a way of criticizing the current education standards.