Nilson Berenchtein Netto

Nilson Berenchtein Netto

My name is Nilson Berenchtein Netto (male), I am a 30 year old PhD Brazilian student. I study at the post-graduation program of Educational Psychology at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). I live in Araçatuba, state of São Paulo and 530 km far from the city of São Paulo.
My PhD research is about the relationship of psychological knowledge, education and suicide in the history of Brazil, but I have an ample interest in this topic. I’ve worked with this subject since the 3rd year of my graduation (2001), when we had to do a research in Social Psychology. At that time I made some primary approximations between Cultural Historical Psychology and the study of suicide because since the previous year I had classes about Cultural Historical Psychology and identified myself with its propositions. In 2003 I started my master studies in Social Psychology; in the same University I do my PhD nowadays. The dissertation was called “Suicide: a psychosocial analysis from the Dialectical Historical Materialism” and tried to analyze this phenomenon in the scope of Psychology and Cultural History and authors from other knowledge areas based on Dialectical Historical Materialism. In this research I fell in love with the investigation of the history of suicide and it’s cultural and social characteristics and enjoyed the fact that my PhD advisor works with the history of psychology in Brazil and her willingness to direct a study that traces this path.
During my master studies I taught some classes in a university but as I was contemplated with a scholarship since the first year of my PhD I had to stop, because that requires exclusive dedication. I’ve participated since graduation, of many conferences and workshops but none with the same characteristics of ISCAR Summer School.
The opportunity to meet colleagues and teachers from different parts of the planet and exchange experiences and knowledge with them, learn how Cultural Historical Psychology and Activity Theory are studied in their countries and how they develop effective practices by the particular characteristics of their countries and their people is what especially motivates my desire to participate in the ISCAR SU 2011. The main interests I have are related to the history of Soviet Psychology, particularly the Cultural Historical Psychology, in its founders and collaborators who are little (or less), studied in Brazil (Ilyenkov, Galperin, Bozhovich, Zeigarnik, Meshcheryakov, …), how are the current studies and productions in this perspective in Russia and other countries and what presents for its future. How we must choose a topic, I tried to indicate the most general of them, because all four topics presented interest me a lot.