The paper approaches the relationships between Psychology and Education, especially taking the psychogenetic perspective’s theories, which enriched the Psychology as much as the Education field. After brief record of the psychological studies of the human development and pointing out the several phases which constituted the Psychology of the Development, the paper deals with the central ideas of Piaget’s psychogenetic theory and its functionalist and social-interactionist views. Finally, it comments the tendency of the researches on the social knowledge and school contents, pointing out their contributions for the school education.
Psychology-Education relationships; psychogenetic perspective; psychogenetic research; school education