Teaching History of Psychology in Cuba: from evaluating and comparingto epistemological criticism

desde evaluar y comparar hasta la crítica epistemológica

Abstract

The appearance of several psychologies with their own development, authors, proposals and events, makes traditional teaching difficult from a chronological line. In this sense, this article recreates the experience of twenty years
of teaching History of Psychology where a distribution by epistemological ascription is adopted, complemented with a characterization of each current from
five dimensions: epistemological, axiological, conceptual, methodological, and
finally application. As a methodological resource, the student uses indicators to
evaluate each proposal: historical, cultural and social context, object of study,
method, authors and psychological elaborations. It is also considered that the
student must understand history as a personal experience; identify your individual history in the search for yourself with the evidence of psychological
proposals. Finally the link between the history of Psychology that has been built
in Cuba, its elective critical tradition, and the history of Cuba in a general sense.