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A recepção da obra de Binet e dos testes psicométricos no Brasil: contrafaces de uma história

2014; Sociedade Brasileira de História da Educação; Volume: 14; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4025/rbhe.v14i2.696

ISSN

2238-0094

Autores

Regina Helena de Freitas Campos, Maria Cristina Soares de Gouvêa, Paula Cristina David Guimarães,

Tópico(s)

Education Pedagogy and Practices

Resumo

The acceptance of Binet's psychometric work in Brazilian education in the first decades of the 20th century is discussed, focusing on authors who produced a critical view of the use of IQ tests, or experienced a tension with authorities when implementing them within schools: Manoel Bomfim, director of Pedagogium RJ, one of the first scholars to introduce Binet's work in Brazil; Maria Lacerda de Moura, a normal schoolteacher who aimed at establishing in Barbacena, MG, a psychological laboratory, facing opposition from state authorities; and Helena Antipoff, Russian psychologist who, as director of the laboratory of psychology of the Belo Horizonte Teachers' College, built the concept of 'civilized intelligence' to address the influence of social conditions on children's test performance.

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