The social, economic and cultural changes in recent decades in all developed societies have meant the emergence of new educational scenarios and contexts, and with them new collective spaces for psychoeducational research and intervention.
This means that there is an increasing number of researchers and professional psychologists who research and intervene in educational settings outside the traditional environments of family and school education and who work with groups not exclusively composed of children and youth.
Educational psychology, or Psychopedagogy, is the discipline that focuses on understanding how human beings acquire knowledge and how they are formed by the learning environment.
Doctoral Programs in Psychopedagogy emphasize studies in the development of learning. Students in these programs may pursue specializations such as school psychology, special education, educational policy, or educational research.
Students study Psychopedagogy at levels ranging from preschool to college, and can learn to work with many different populations, such as gifted children and adults learning to read.
Graduates may find work as faculty members, researchers, consultants, instructional software developers, test developers. They can also find jobs as managers of educational programs and other positions in businesses, foundations, public schools, state and federal departments of education, and the military.
Professionals in the field study cognitive, behavioral, developmental, social, and emotional factors that influence the ability to learn, in order to improve educational practice for children, adults, and persons with special learning needs.
Some of the subjects taught in this course are:
Some countries where you can study the doctorate in Psychopedagogy:
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