Abstract
The pedagogical projects of Psychology courses started to incorporate – considering their different conditions and specificities – the National Curriculum Guidelines (NCG), after its implementation in 2004. This work reports an inter-institutional research which investigated how the incorporation of NCG is happening within Psychology courses, focusing on the educational processes. Five Higher Education Institutions in Minas Gerais – three public and two private – were surveyed. Interviews with five current Program Coordinators – and a former one – are addressed. A careful reading led to the organization of the following axes: characterization of participants; characterization of the psychology course; national curriculum guidelines; psychologist education; and psychologist training in the field of education. As professionals with multiple tasks that have experienced numerous challenges, coordinators are key actors to understand and incorporate NCG into the everyday of a Psychology course and, at the same time, important mediators of this document, the pedagogical project, the professorial activities, and the psychologist educational activities. The appropriation of the role of coordinator is a process that occurs in the course of the work itself and, in this sense, the need for permanent training to help the professional to deal with different demands of the course is highlighted.
Program Coordinators; School; Psychologist Education; Political Pedagogical Project; Psychology and Education