Tavares, Lucilia

Lucília Tavares graduated as a teacher at the Escola Normal do Distrito Federal (Federal District Normal School), then the city of Rio de Janeiro, in 1922, and worked as a municipal public school teacher from 1924 to 1928. In 1925, she was appointed by the Diretoria Geral de Instrução Pública (General Directorate of Public Instruction), the agency responsible for education in the Federal District, to work at the Laboratório de Psicologia da Colônia de Psychopatas (Psychology Laboratory of the Psychopathic Colony), where she worked until 1931, and, from 1928 on, as an assistant of Waclaw Radecki. During the period she worked at the laboratory, Lucilia published three papers as a result of her researches, which are among the first female publications in psychology in Brazil. One of these publications was a book, which is considered the first psychology book written by a woman in Brazil (Lourenço Filho, 2004[1950]). In March 1932, through Decree n. 21.173, the laboratory, previously...