History of ideas and epistemology in psychology and education

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

• historically situate the various currents of psychology and education and the context that created them 

• identify the role of philosophical postulates and naive preconceptions in arguments on the scientificity of disciplines and to identify the conditions under which the arguments they imply apply to the variety of concrete practice situations

• recognize the difficulties and fruits of multi-disciplinarity in pyschology and education

• understand the situation of pyschology among today social praactices and compare psychology as lit is to social expectations