The response to Binet production on Brazilian education: untold aspects of a history

  • Regina Helena de Freitas Campos Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  • Maria Cristina Soares de Gouvea Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  • Paula Cristina David Guimarães
Keywords: Psychometry, psychometric tests, Alfred Binet, psychology of intelligence

Abstract

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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Published
2014-07-25
How to Cite
Campos, R. H. de F., Gouvea, M. C. S. de, & Guimarães, P. C. D. (2014). The response to Binet production on Brazilian education: untold aspects of a history. Revista Brasileira De História Da Educação, 14(2[35]), 215-242. Retrieved from https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/rbhe/article/view/38885