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Brief history of psychopedagogy

Psychopedagogy was born in Europe, at the beginning of the century. The first
Psychopedagogical centers were founded in France in 1946 by J. Favez-
Boutonier and George Mauco, two psychopedagogists who tried to readapt
children with socially inappropriate behaviors at school or at home and assist
children with learning difficulties even though they were intelligent, the centers
brought together knowledge of Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy.
In South America the first psychopedagogical studies emerged in 1960, and in
Argentina in the 1970s.
In Brazil in Porto Alegre in the 1970s, special training courses in
psychopedagogy began, focusing on learning problems, having as one of the
main diffusers the recognized Argentine professor Jorge Visca.
Psychopedagogy was born as an empirical occupation because children with
learning difficulties caused by different problems needed some help, and
medicine and psychology alone, could not give them a solution. Over time,
psychopedagogy became an independent and complementary knowledge,
possessing an object of study (the learning process) and diagnostic and
preventive resources of its own. Psychopedagogy is not a discipline but and
interdisciplinary science, because it operates in various areas of knowledge,
studies and works in human learning, and offers an intervention field whose
limits are broad. The human learning process itself is a complex phenomenon
that involves multiple factors and challenges any attempt to explain it from a
single scientific discourse.
Psychopedagogy has experienced a great scientific development since the 20th
century as a result of disciplinary integration of psychology and pedagogy, and
it has been consolidated in recent years, as one of the fundamental elements
of the structure of support in the educational system. Nowadays, it is gaining
great importance among the most important careers.

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 at the beginning of the century.

 and assist children with learning difficulties
 special training courses in psychopedagogy

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Activity 7.1 Write the complete phrases in Spanish.

1. Children’s rights to a proper education.

2. The point of view of professionals.
3. A discipline that enables students to learn to their full potential
without feeling different.
4. Recent studies about the hereditary influence on most
psychological disorders

Activity 7.2 Put a tick in the right box.

1. In Brazil in Porto Alegre in the 1970s, special training courses in

psychopedagogy began, focusing on learning problems, having
as one of the main diffusers the recognized Argentine professor
Jorge Visca.
2. Learning disabilities are referred to as “hidden disabilities.
3. Problems related to reading.
4. Nowadays, it is gaining great importance among the most
important careers.

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Activity 7.3 In the text, underline the answers to these questions

and then re-write them in Spanish.

1. ¿Dónde y cuando nació la psicopedagogía ?

2. ¿Por que la psicopedagogía nació como una ocupación empírica ?
3. ¿Cómo es el proceso de aprendizaje humano ?