IV Conceptualization of Mind

This report is based on presentations made in a Workshop at Estoril Portugal 21st-25th November 1972 organized by CERI in collaboration with the Portuguese Ministry of National Education, and organized by the OECD. By 1972 Portugal was still a dictatorship.
The report aims to "identify contributions and benefits of the school as a focal point for social change". There are six major contributions:

James Sully was an English psychologist of the Child Study Movement. This book results from articles and essays published before 1895 in magazines. Sully starts to recognize his debt to some scholars who put the study of the child on the agenda of psycho-education, like William Preyer. He also thanks General Pitt Rivers and H. Balfour of the Museum of Oxford for making possible "studying the drawings of savages" and to the art educator Ebenezer Cooke for his help on children's modes of drawing.