Abstract
This study aimed to address the childhood medicalization process, making a mapping of the students of the first cycle of elementary education in the municipal network of a city in Paraná, who were diagnosed and medicated due to the said learning disorders, among them, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It was also intended to discuss how the system of continued progression influences the schooling process of these students. For this purpose, an empirical and bibliographic research was combined, in which the data of the field investigation, obtained through questionnaires answered by the parents or guardians, were submitted to quantitative and qualitative analysis and the results were discussed together with the bibliographic review, from the theoretical framework of Historical-Cultural Psychology. Through this research, it was clarified that the phenomenon of medicalization grows exponentially, especially in the educational scenario, and that the system of continued progression, as it was implemented, collaborates so that this problem is covered up.
Keywords:
medicalization; historical-cultural psychology; continuous progress