Peñaherrera Mosquera, Gerardo Leopoldo
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Date
2021
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Springer Nature
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Gerardo Leopoldo Peñaherrera, commonly known as Leopoldo Peñaherrera, was born in Girón (Azuay, Ecuador). His parents were Leopoldo Peñaherrera Chico and Rosa Mosquera Alvear. He studied at the Escuela San José (San José School) of the Hermanos Cristianos (Christian Brothers, 1939–1944) in Cuenca and, in 1945, entered the Salesian Aspirancy and studied at the Colegio Normal Orientalista Salesiano (Salesian Orientalist Normal School) and graduated from it as a Bachiller en Ciencias de la Educación (Bachelor of Educational Sciences), in Quito in 1954. Then he studied at the Instituto Salesiano de Filosofía y Pedagogía (Salesian Institute of Philosophy and Pedagogy) in Quito (1955–1957) and obtained the degree of Profesor de Segunda Enseñanza en Ciencias Sociales (Professor of Second Education in Social Sciences, 1965) (Peñaherrera, 1976).
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Ecuador, Founder of psychology programs, Psychodiagnostic