Labarca Hubertson, Amanda

Amanda Crispina del Carmen Pinto Sepulveda, known as Amanda Labarca, was the first Extraordinary Professor of Psychology in Chile who carried out her work in much of the twentieth century. In 1902, she finished her middle studies in the Liceo Isabel Le Brun de Pinochet (Isabel Le Brun de Pinochet Lyceum); in 1905 when she was only 18 years old, she received the title of teacher of Spanish in the Instituto Pedagógico de la Universidad de Chile (Pedagogical Institute of the University of Chile). In 1922, she obtained the position of Extraordinary Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the University of Chile, becoming the first woman to carry out university teaching in the country and throughout the southern cone of America (Delgado, 1946; Reyes et al., 2002). In March 1923, she taught her first course in psychology and remained teaching until approximately 1954. Other courses she taught were Educational Sociology, Problems of Middle Education in Chile,...