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Lazursky’s Natural Experimentation as a Method of Personality Investigation in Brazil
Author(s)
Riviane B. Bravo
Raquel M. de Assis
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2017.10.001
Affiliation(s)
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Centro Universitário Newton Paiva, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
ABSTRACT
The study of personality
has always been presented in Psychology as a way to understand the individual’s
behavior and characteristics. Within such context, several theorists deepened their
studies and used techniques to reveal the psychical world structure. By
attempting to know the individual in their characterological profile, the
psychologist and educator Helena Antipoff decided to revive her experience in
the former Soviet Union by means of the observation models developed by the
psychologist and psychiatrist Lazursky. When Antipoff arrived in Brazil in
1929, invited by the government to assist in the development of the educational
reform in the period called New School, she started to spread Lazursky’s work
in the state of Minas Gerais. Antipoff used Lazursky’s Natural Experimentation rather than intelligence tests in
psychological evaluations as a method aimed at the characterization of
personality through observations of the behaviors and routine under natural
conditions. She researched about individuals by using systematized and
standardized observations and experiments, whose results were analyzed
methodologically in figure and tables, which helped her study the personality of both
the students and teachers. The purpose of this
paper is to show, based on primary source documents from Antipoff’s publications
between 1930’s and 1950’s, the study of the
personality through the Natural Experimentation method as the main model for
the beginning of her educational work in Brazil. The use of the method
contributed to the new educational structure, once it consisted of
investigating and evaluating the student according to his profile, that is, his
personality.
KEYWORDS
Natural Experimentation, personality, appropriation, education, character, characterological profile
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