A scientific researcher

Abstract

The author traces his scientific training and the itinerary
that led him from the degree in physics with a thesis on biophysics to the human and social sciences and in particular to social and professional pedagogy. The scientific rigor of physics, and the experience of experimental research in the biophysics of a particular organ of human sense (the semicircular canals of the vestibular apparatus) have constituted a cultural and methodological background in many ways ideal; all the more so since they referred directly to scientific psychology since its foundation. Those researches had to be abandoned progressively, although there were comforting results and prospects, and on them research and professional exercise in the pedagogical sector
were inserted, first as scientific education in the school, and then and with greater persistence and deepening in social and professional pedagogy, as initial and continuous training of pedagogists and of sociohealth professionals.