Psicólogo Escolar, Orientador Educacional e Assistente Pedagógico na escola: um trabalho em cooperação?

Abstract

The figure of the School Psychologist is becoming more conspicuous on the Brazilian educacional scene. The demand for the services of these professionals by different teaching Institutions has been increasing, and so have Union and Council movements aiming at the coordination of discussions on the role of school psychologist and concentrating efforts to have city and state schools hire these professionals. In view of these considerations, it is interesting to investigate to what extent this new professional position in is conflit with existing ones, especially that of Educacional Advisor. Indeed, even though theoretically the attributions of each professional are defined, in practice a confusion of roles has been observed due to the difficulty in delimiting the area of action of each. Thus, the objective of the present study was to determine the extent of this difficulty and whether it creates conflict or cooperation in terms of work performance. The first step was a survey of state, city and private schools registered with the Regional Department of Education of Ribeirão Preto and counting with the services of these professionals. Schools where one or more of these professionals were present were visited and interviews were carried out. The data obtained were processed in terms of contexts of the interview and the following points were analyzed: professional training, emphasizing the relationship between tins training and the present performance, and the problems concerning the latter; difficulties and limitations perceived by the professionals in terms of performance; expectations concerning professional work existing in the situation in relation to the absence of the other professional; exchange between professionals in situations where they work together.