School and Educational Psychology: a literature review between 2008 and 2012

Abstract: The intense epistemological dispersion around the concepts of School Psychology and Educational Psychology hinders adoption of agreed criteria in the academic debate. The displayed text describes a literature that aims to better position the focus of further research. We seek to identify, on the basis of specific data, the occurrence of terms that refer to the function and performance of psychologists in schools. The selection of recent academic work has been carried out exclusively in consultation with available journals in the SciELO platform. The results show an increasing interest in the area and the maturing of groups that develop research in the area. For the subsequent project, this survey indicates the most distinguished speakers as well as some productive approaches to qualitative research.