Resistências, infâncias e comprimidos: medicalização-patologização das crianças no âmbito escolar

Abstract

The present paper approaches medicalization-pathologization in a scholar context. The research was developed in a kindergarten class of a public school at Sobral/CE, Brasil. Guided by Cartography, the study used participant observation, as one of the researchers attended in class, and produced its findings through tools such as a field diary and interview with a teacher. The theoretical frame included genealogical studies of childhood subjectivation, as well as a critical-political approach about medicalization-pathologization on its educational psychology interface. The research sheds light over the lines of control and social agency regarding differences that arise in school life by what is done to children and reproduced by them. On the other hand, the study makes visible lines of resistance to these controls, by children, teachers and research acts. Then, departing from the micro political analyses of scholar daily life, we bet on the potential of resistance emergence at a field of life control that influences scholar institutions.

Keywords

• medicalization
• pathologization
• education
• childhood