In/exclusão, diversidade, diferença e alteridade: Contribuições de Maura Corcini Lopes para a Educação Inclusiva

Abstract

This is a qualitative documentary study that problematizes the concepts of inclusion, diversity, difference, and otherness from the theoretical-methodological perspective of Cultural Studies in Education in a Foucauldian post-structuralist perspective, adopted by professor and researcher Maura Corcini Lopes. The documents analyzed were the professor and researcher's writings and audiovisuals, subjected to discourse analysis. Professor Maura Corcini Lopes proposes a radical critique of inclusion, considering it as an invention of a time produced from the notion of exclusion, an imperative of the Modern State that gains the greatest contours in Contemporary times. She also points out the power of the concept and methodological operator in/exclusion to discuss inclusion, distancing itself from the typical binarism of Modernity. Concerning diversity and difference, she considers them important concepts for thinking about the metanarrative of school inclusion, marking a distinction between the concepts and supporting the untranslatability of difference. Otherness is thought of from the centrality of culture and it is possible to perceive that this other is constituted from a discursive network that establishes subject positions related to the way we narrate this different, in such a way that it is possible to distrust the naturalized narratives about this other. A theoretical pedagogical proposal is presented for teacher training inspired by the ideas of the Pedagogical Training Circuit presented by Maura Corcini Lopes so that the pedagogical practices named as inclusive in Basic Education can be reviewed, having as centrality the promotion of the didacticpedagogical exercise of diversity, difference, and otherness, aiming to promote the existence of plural subjects in school and non-school spaces