Abstract COVID-19, caused by the coronavirus family SARS-CoV-2 and declared a pandemic in March 2020, continues to spread. Its enormous and unprecedented impact on our society has evidenced the huge social inequity of our modern society, in which the most vulnerable individuals have been pushed into even worse socioeconomic situations, struggling to survive. As the pandemic continues, we witness the huge suffering of the most marginalized populations around the globe, even in developed, high-income latitudes, such as North America and Europe. That is even worse in low-income regions, such as Brazil, where the public healthcare infrastructure had already been struggling before the pandemic. Cities with even more evident social inequity have been impacted the most, leaving the most socioeconomically disadvantaged ones, such as slum residents and black people, continuously inflating the statistics of COVID-19 sufferers. Poverty, marginalization, and inequity have been well-known risk factors for morbidity and mortality from other diseases. However, COVID-19 has deepened our society’s wound. It is up to us to heal it up. If we really care for the others and want to survive as a species, we must fight social inequity.

A teoria da aprendizagem experiencial consiste em uma abordagem sobre o desenvolvimento do adulto, em especial, do profissional. Segundo seu fundador, o americano David Kolb, a profissionalidade é um percurso permanente de aprendizagem, desde que o indivíduo possa se apropriar de suas experiências de atuação profissional. São discutidos os princípios e conceitos básicos dessa perspectiva, fundamentados na relação entre determinados tipos de aprendizagem, denominados modalidades de aprendizagem, e o desenvolvimento dos processos afetivos, perceptivos, cognitivos e comportamentais, presentes ao longo do percurso profissional ou em situações específicas de aprendizagem, como é o caso de projetos de formação em serviço. A perspectiva holística e integrativa da aprendizagem experiencial se aproxima das tendências contemporâneas que destacam o papel do pensamento reflexivo para melhoria da qualificação profissional. Contudo, a acepção kolbiana segue um caminho próprio, original, com grande potencial de aplicação para estudos e propostas formativas no campo do desenvolvimento profissional.

The theory of the experiential learning consists of a perspective about the development of the adult, in special, of the professional. According to its founder, the American David Kolb, the profissionality is a permanent process of learning, provided the individual can assume appropriate the experiences of professional performance. The principles and basic concepts of this approach are presented, based on the relation between certain types of learning and the development of the affectivity, perception, cognition and behavior belonging to the professional life track or in specific situations as it is the case of projects of formation in service. The holistic and integrative perspective of the experiential learning has some proximity with contemporary approaches which emphasize the role of the reflective thought for improvement of the professional qualification. However, Kolb’s theory follows a proper and original way, with great potential for studies and formative proposals for the professional development.

Com o intuito de contribuir para a utilização de análise documental em pesquisa, este texto apresenta o processo de uma investigação que objetivou compreender as relações entre psicologia e educação, no contexto sócio-histórico brasileiro, entre as décadas de 50 e 80. Partindo de uma autora cuja relevância na história recente se deve, especialmente, à criação de uma proposta de alfabetização, o Programa Alfa, foram pesquisadas as intersecções entre produção teórica da psicologia e atividade prática em educação. São descritos os instrumentos e meios de realização da análise de conteúdo, apontando o percurso em que as decisões foram sendo tomadas quanto às técnicas de manuseio dos documentos: desde a organização e classificação do material até a elaboração das categorias de análise. A perspectiva historiográfica adotada nesse estudo procurou superar a dicotomia entre as abordagens internalista e externalista da história das ciências, propiciando compreender o âmbito sócio-histórico em que se constituiu a referida produção científica.

With intention to contribute for the use of the documentary analysis in research, this text presents the process of execution of an inquiry that aimed at to understand the relationships between psychology and education, into the context of the workmanship of an author - whose relevance in recent history is owing, especially, to the creation of a literacy proposal, the Programa Alfa - it was investigated the interchange between theoretical production from psychology and practical activity in education. The instruments and ways of accomplishment of the content analysis are described, pointing the course in that the decisions went being taken in relation to the handling techniques with the documents: from the organization and classification of the material until the elaboration of the categories of analysis. In this study it was adopted a perspective of the historiography that tried to overcome the dichotomy between the approaches internal and external of the history of sciences, propitiating to understand the partner-historical ambit in that was constituted the cited scientific production.