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Medicalization of Modes of Being and Learning

This article analyzes the modes of being and learning in school, considering medicalization as a device that transforms human life behaviors in pathologies. We invest in the historical-conceptual dimension, discussing this process. The school events here presented provide visibility to the practice of inventing diagnoses that justify the non-learning. The article is built on Foucault's thinking, particularly in relation to the strategy of subjectivity constitution by discourse. The analysis focuses on the comprehension of the ever-changing human condition, while it discusses school practices and pathologizing discourses.

Special Education; Medicalization; Pathologization; School Inclusion


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