PSYCHOLOGY AND CULTURE: AN INSTITUTIONAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE COLOMBIAN CARIBBEAN CASE

Abstract

From the investigations that began with the completion of a doctoral thesis, research has continued on the intercultural dialogue of knowledge that constitutes the Caribbean ethos in northern Colombia in the South American continent and, if this has been the subject of interest for Psychology that is addressed in this context and in the training of professionals in this discipline, initially addressing-from the three pioneering university programs in such work, two private (emerged the first five years of the seventies of the twentieth century) and a public , offered at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The text is based on the phenomenological, qualitative paradigm and the historical-hermeneutical method, triangulating through the consultation of bibliographic and archival sources, semi-structured interviews with psychologists, pedagogues and sociologists and testimonial contributions of some teachers-administrative and graduates of the three programs of Psychology at the Metropolitan and Northern Universities in Barranquilla and the University of Magdalena in Santa Marta. One way of approaching the results, points to an enormous distance or fragmentation, a non-dialogue or if this occurs, even incipient, between the ancestral knowledge-worldview of the original peoples settled in this region and the Eurocentrist emphasis-scientific knowledge and Anglo-Saxons that are part of the curricula, research and publications in these university context-programs.