Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Ana Flávia Teodoro de Mendonça  and  ARAUJO, Clarissa Martins de. Cultural Representation of Disability in the Media Speech of the Brazilian Ministry of Education Teacher's Web Portal. Rev. bras. educ. espec. [online]. 2016, vol.22, n.1, pp.65-78. ISSN 1980-5470.  https://doi.org/10.1590/S1413-65382216000100006.

The aim of this study was to investigate the cultural representation of deficiency in the media speech built up by the Ministry of Education (MEC) in its Teacher's Web Portal, seeking to identify the stereotypes and possible existing essentialization throughout the production about disabled people. Our analysis was based on Foucault's perspective of archaeological discourse analysis, therefore, we nominated as file a set of documents ranging from lessons elaborated in the section Espaço da Aula (Classroom), publications in Jornal do Professor (Teacher's Journal), in which one can find articles related to disabilities, supported by education professionals and broadcasted in institutional videos, as well as music, magazine articles, comic books, youtube videos, children's literature, among others. The research has showed that despite being an attractive website, due to its many qualities, such as possibilities of intervention and a heterogeneous set of techniques used, the Web Portal, which is subsidized by the Ministry of Education, persists in the production of disability in a pejorative and stereotyped way. Thus, despite the fact that the MEC Teacher´s Web Portal offers the teachers a variety of methodologies, showing desirable procedures and recommending pedagogical practices which meet the educational goals proposed by the Brazilian State to the education of people with disabilities in an inclusive perspective, it may end up producing the opposite effect, noticing that much of what is proposed in this formative website is related to a concept of a regulatory and pathological education, which contradicts the basic assumptions of inclusive education.

Keywords : Especial Education; Inclusive; Stereotype.

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