The educational psychologist in non-formal and informal educational settings

Abstract

Education is a complex phenomenon that ranges from purely quantitative and qualitative aspects to tangible and ideological ones, including a large variable number and multiple forms that manifest themselves in the same educational event. A proposed education typology identifies the formal, non-formal and informal education, as an alternative response to criticism raised two decades earlier by education mentors on critical theories referred to the school, who valued other educational environments’ expansion and even some of them proposed the deschooling society and accepted that formal education is only a part of education. Educational psychology, meanwhile, has developed new directions; on the conceptual level, consensus is seen to change the conventional definition of educational psychologist for another; thus, educational psychologist is the professional whose work involves objective reflection and intervention on human behavior in educational situations, through the development of the individuals’ capacity, groups and institutions. The educational psychologist primarily develops his working profession in the context of social systems dedicated to education in all levels and modalities.