Considerações sobre alteridade, educação e deficiência

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present a set of eleven distinct discussions that combine otherness, directly or indirectly referring to the field of deficiencies. Therefore, we reflect on some of the ways to welcome the other and the ethical, epistemological and political effects of these approaches. We point out the importance of refusing this other - in this case, considered disabled - as possessing a previous essence divorced from the historical, economic and political context that constitutes us; the opposition to any negative representation, capable of producing or reproducing stigmatization processes; the encounter with otherness as an outbreak capable of interrogating our sameness and destabilizing our systems; and, finally, the exercise of otherness as a promoter of justice and social responsibility.