PARTICIPATIVE OBSERVATION: A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY

João Batista Martins
Universidade Estadual de Londrina
Dep. Psicologia Social e Institucional

The purpose of this presentation is to take the participative obersevation as an appropriated methodology of the work for scholar psychologists. We consider the school one social construction prescribed through the representations of the social agents that participate in its day by day. The participative observation permits the psychologists to research the structures of social relations and to give alternative ways for the solution of problems in the achievment of school goals. Therefore, the job of psychologists should be to get the social representations of school social segments in the sense to discover the contraditions that come up in the school relations routine.