La construcción del conocimiento profesional y la socialización de los psicopedagogos/as de centro noveles

Authors

Juan Fernández SierraSalto de línea Susana Fernández LarraguetaSalto de línea Departamento de Didáctica y Organización Escolar. Universidad de Almería.

Abstract

The construction of professional knowledge and the socialisation of recently qualified educational psychologistsSalto de línea Salto de línea The complexity of a society which is more and more global, technological, and intercommunicated requires the school system and its professionals to rearrange epistemological practices and perspectives.Along these lines, over the last few decades we have observed the progress made in studies on curriculum and teaching staff. However, in response to the changing social, political and economic context, education has demanded that other professionals be incorporated, in parallel, into the compulsory education system, where they have gradually acquired responsibilities and considerable scope for the future: school advisers, external advisers, consultants, mediators, etc. In this article we have focussed on educational psychologists in secondary education schools who for a decade have been coordinating the counselling departments in some Autonomous Communities such as Andalusia, where we carried out this study.The little research carried out in this sphere has concentrated almost exclusively on examining functions and tasks. In this study, which could be described as longitudinal,we have examined how the specialists are building up their practical thinking with regard to the role of educational psychology and how they are developing their own profession. The central axis of our analysis is the socialisation process, the stage they have to go through as newly qualified educational psychologists, and on the basis of the evidence, we submit the factors that influence these processes grouped into four categories: a) academic socialisation; b) administrative socialisation; c) professional socialisation, and d) the processes of experiential rebuilding.The study has been carried out from a clearly naturalistic perspective.

Keywords

Practical thinking, socialization, educational psychology actions, training.