The adolescents education and the training of scientific concepts

Abstract

This article is part of a study in progress that aims to present theoretical framework of cultural-historical psychology school for the adolescents’ education. Considering that, for historical and cultural psychology, adolescence is a privileged moment both to the development of thinking by concepts such as the formation of the world’s conception and developing self-awareness, the hypothesis of this study is that school education can decisively contribute, through the teaching of systematized knowledge for the psychological development of adolescents in order to overcome the limits of everyday life concepts. Therefore, this article will present the urgent need to overcome the naturalizing concepts, as evidenced by the liberal currents in psychology. These conceptions of adolescence contrast with the focal point in which Vygotsky and colleagues focused their research, namely the concepts formation as a quantum leap in psychological development at this stage they called “age of transition.”