Teaching Psychology’s History in Brazil: from the Benjamin Constant Reform, to the minimum curriculum and the National Curriculum Guidelines

Abstract

Psychology’s History is an important theme in undergraduate Psychology curricula as a basic orientation for and discussing “epistemological and historical foundations” and the promotion of critical training.

This article investigates the historical moments of the institutionalization of the teaching of the Psychology’s History in Brazil, since the Benjamin Constant Reform, passing through the Minimum Curriculum and culminating in the National Curriculum Guidelines. We intend to highlight the paths of conception and institutionalization of the discipline of Psychology’s History in Brazil, and how that consolidated as an important discussion at the academy.

This work is organized analysing twelve legal documents referring to the teaching of Psychology, discussing: curricular models, perspectives that present different histories of Psychology, as well as how it’s impact on the construction of memories in the science and collaborate for professional training.