Social responsibility in higher education: contributions from the school psychologyHigher education is responsible for the process of integral professional education, for the production of new knowledge and for the development of society. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are those that take care of the development of people with whom they interact, their relationships with each other and with the environment, and also with the labor market and global communities. Thus, actions of social responsibility of the HEI indicate their commitment with their ethical, political and social roles. Anchoring in a preventive institutional perspective of performance in Educational Psychology, we developed an action research in a Brazilian private College aiming to plan, implement and evaluate actions such as hazing, extension courses and teacher and technicians training, educational psychology support, among others. The research result suggests the construction of a multidimensional proposal of social responsibility which takes in account various dimensions of the HEI.
School psychology; social responsibility; higher education
