PSYKOLOGI SOM UNDERVISNINGSFAG I DE GYMNASIALE UDDANNELSER

Abstract

The article gives an account of the development psychology has gone through as a subject at the upper secondary levels, since the subject was introduced through the foundation of The Higher Preparatory Examination Course in 1967. From the very beginning, the subject benefited from great popularity among the participants, although for many years there were problems obtaining accept as a significant upper secondary subject, both amongst politicians, teachers of other secondary level subjects, and even amongst psychologists. Thus not until 1979 – under protest from The Association of Danish Psychologists – was an actual education of teachers of psychology established, and hence a number of upper secondary school reforms were to take place, until as late as in 1993, political consensus led to the introduction of psychology as a subject at the upper secondary school. But since then, psychology has consolidated its position both as a central general education and a preliminary subject at upper secondary schools.