Medicalização na educação: uma pesquisa bibliográfica

Abstract

Life related problems are constantly moving towards the medical field, such as the transformation of collective issues on a social, political and historical level in individual and biological issues. To approach social issues as if they were biological, frees the power locus from where these problems are generated and perpetuated from all its responsibilities. This paper features medicalization on education according to national studies and it brings up a reflexion about the learning problem and how it relates to medicalization, it also reveals that the same is being used as an effective strategy to deal with kids that display difficulties while learning, making a point about the process of life medicalization and its aspects on the education field. The medicalization hides inequalities, origins, and remodels into individual problems that usually belong to the subject on a biological level. This process disqualifies the differences between identities or what makes us unique, our singularity.