Human formation and competencies: The debate on curriculum guidelines for psychology [Formação humana e competências: O debate nas diretrizes curriculares de psicologia]

Abstract

This article analyzes the perspectives of human formation and competencies development as identified in Brazilian National Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Courses in Psychology. From the critique of modern processes of human formation, as discussed by Critical Social Theory, the analysis focused on its institutionalization in school practices, included the competencies pedagogy, and specifically in universitary education. Then, these issues are discussed in psychologists' formation. Comparing the proposes of emancipatory formation and formation oriented to developing competencies, it is pointed out, debating on Curriculum Guidelines, that psychologists' formation represents a contradictory process that reveals a project in dispute.