Current State of History of Psychology Teaching and Education in Argentina

Abstract

This study is an empirical analysis of the field's current state in Argentinian universities. Bibliometric parameters were used to retrieve the total listed texts (N = 797) of eight undergraduate history courses' syllabi from Argentina's most populated public university psychology programs. Then, professors in charge of the selected courses (N = 7) were interviewed regarding the structure, procedure, and instructional strategies of their courses. Results showed predominance of works produced by Argentinian scholars and secondary sources. Syllabi showed limited incorporation of primary sources, recent research papers, and certain psychological schools. The pervasive presence of infrastructural constraints and lecture-based instruction are seen as limitations that should be collectively debated and addressed by courses' faculty.

25 años de Suma Psicológica. Un análisis bibliométrico

“…Por otro lado, también se han desarrollado estudios bibliométricos para analizar otro tipo de aspectos, por ejemplo, la producción científica en psicología considerando las revistas que tienen el índice SJR más alto (García-Martínez et al, 2012), el desarrollo de estudios de metaanálisis en psicología (Guilera, Barrios & Gómez-Benito, 2013), la internacionalización de revistas de psicología en Brasil (Fradkin, 2017), la producción científica de países postsoviéticos en revistas de psicología (Lovakov & Agadullina, 2017), los psicólogos más citados en Web of Science (Hartley & Ho, 2017), las revistas multidisciplinares de psicología (Quevedo-Blasco & López-López, 2010) los artículos clásicos en psicología (Ho & Hartley, 2016), bibliometría y prácticas académicas en Colombia (Jaraba-Barrios, Guerrero-Castro, Gómez-Morales & López-López, 2011; López-López, Silva, García, Aguilar & Aguado, 2010), redes de coautoría (Ávila Toscano, Marenco-Escudero & Madariaga Orozco, 2014), artículos de impacto (Cudina & Ossa, 2016), ritmo, grupos y modalidades de producción (Puche-Navarro & Ossa, 2012) y los textos utilizados en la formación de pregrado en universidades argentinas (Fierro, Ostrovsky & Di Doménico, 2018).…”

A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications in the Web of Science Category of Educational Psychology in the Last Two Decades

“…Bibliometric reviews of research in global psychology are available exploring both the general literature (Krampen 2016;Krampen et al 2011;Ho & Hartley, 2016) and specialized journals in the discipline (Jennings et al, 2008;Milfont & Page, 2013;Mintegi et al, 2011;Reutzel & Mohr, 2015;Tur-Porcar et al, 2018). Similar procedures have been implemented to map psychological research in particular geographical regions such as Asia (Haslam & Kashima, 2010), Europe (Íñiguez-Rueda et al, 2008;Schui & Krampen, 2007), South America (Fierro et al, 2018), and the post-Soviet countries (Fedorov, 2019;Lovakov & Agadullina, 2019). Researchers have also used bibliometric approaches to map the literature produced in several branches of psychology, such as positive psychology (Schui & Krampen 2010), personality psychology (Allik, 2013), and applied psychology (Romeo et al, 2017).…”

Psychological science in Argentina: current state & future directions

“…In 2015, there were 193,99 psychologists per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Finland and Norway with 56,96 and 54,98 psychologists per 100,000 inhabitants [1,12]. Even though psychologists in Argentina are licensed to work on fields such as clinical, educational, and forensic psychology, they tend to work on clinical psychology [13,22]. This can be related to the history of Psychology in Argentina.…”

“…Argentinian clinical psychologists tend to adopt a psychodynamic perspective [12,13,29]. In 2012, Muller & Palavezzatti [27] stated that 52,9% of the psychologists in Buenos Aires reported adopting this perspective in their clinical practice.…”