Abstract
This article analyzes the discourses on psychology and its contributions to education from the examination manuals that subject employed in training colleges during the first half of the twentieth century. Such speeches are taken as historical events and objects, evidence that there was, in a not too distant time, another way of thinking about the value of psychology for the teachers. The manuals were written from the experience of the authors as the subject teachers and some consist in the publication of their classes, taught according to the current programs. In the period considered, it claimed, to psychology the status of an autonomous science, separated from philosophy and located between biology and sociology, in which completed all the sciences that took man as an object of study. The subject was presented as a promising new science, whose study could provide a secure basis for the child's education.
Keywords:
Psychology and education; textbook; normal education
