Carlos Cueto Fernandini (1913-1968), educador y pionero de la Psicología Peruana

Abstract

En este artículo se revisa la vida y obra de Carlos Cueto Fernandini, uno de los pioneros de la educación y la psicología en el Perú. Se presenta primero una breve reseña biográfica del autor para luego analizar sus aportes a la psicología y su visión pedagógica. Este trabajo es importante porque Carlos Cueto ha sido una figura trascendente para las ciencias sociales en el Perú, pero poco analizada en el contexto de la psicología y, particularmente, en el de la historia de la psicología, dentro del cual se enmarca este estudio.

Ten years of the Peruvian Society of the History of Psychology.

“…The historiography of psychology in Peru has in Reynaldo Alarcón (1924–2020) its maximum representative because he is the one who initiated the historical production of Peruvian psychology, with the text Panorama de la Psicopedagogía en el Perú (Alarcón, 1961), which was published by the Instituto Psicopedagógico Nacional as part of the Series of Psychopedagogical Studies. This institute was formed in 1941 under the leadership of Julio Chiriboga (1896–1956), who summoned several academic precursors of the professionalization of Peruvian psychology such as Walter Blumenfeld, Luis Aquiles, Carlos Cueto, Luis Felipe Alarco, and Maurice Simon, among others; and it had an active, although short, institutional life (Arias Gallegos, 2020).…”

“…On the other hand, in Lima, Tomás Caycho, published several articles on Reynaldo Alarcón (Arias Gallegos & Caycho, 2022; Caycho, 2013a, 2013c; Caycho & Gallegos, 2015), Walter Blumenfeld (Caycho, 2013b; Caycho et al, 2015) and Hipólito Unanue (Caycho, 2016), being the editor of the book Estudios de historia de la psicología en Hispanoamérica (Caycho et al, 2018). A characteristic feature of this period is a greater attention to various actors in Peruvian psychology who have made relevant contributions, but have not been reviewed in depth within a more traditional view, such as Hans Hahn (Orbegoso, 2011), Federico León (Caycho, 2012), Pedro Zulen, (Caycho, 2015), Joseph MacKnight (Orbegoso, 2016b), Ernesto Pollitt (Arias Gallegos, 2016b), Deán Valdivia (Arias Gallegos, 2018a), Belén Salvatierra (Arias Gallegos, 2019a), Carlos Cueto (Arias Gallegos, 2020), César Augusto Guardia Mayorga (Arias Gallegos, 2021), and Carlos Alberto Seguín (Arias Gallegos et al, 2021). In addition, there is a greater dissemination of historical facts that have been obviated in Alarcón’s historiographical version, such as the first psychology laboratories in Peru (Orbegoso, 2015a, 2018) and the advances of psychology in other regions of the country (Arias Gallegos, 2010, 2014, 2014, 2018b; Orbegoso, 2021; Paredes, 2019).…”