Abstract

ARANTES, Ricardo  and  FREITAS, Claudia. The constitution of the demand for neurology referrals from within education. Sér.-Estud. [online]. 2019, vol.24, n.51, pp.291-307.  Epub Oct 24, 2019. ISSN 2318-1982.  https://doi.org/10.20435/serie-estudos.v24i51.1217.

This article discusses the constitution of the demand for Neurology referrals from within Education using quantitative and qualitative means. The expression neurocolonization is proposed to describe situations whenever neurosciences underpine teaching optimization processes. Medicalization on Education is reviewed in order to problematize the comprehension of learning impediments as bodily defects. Neurology referral letters in a city in the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre, RS, during the second semester of year 2015 were mapped. Six letters written by teachers were found attached to those referrals. Neurology referrals related to educational issues outnumber complaints as headaches and epilepsy/convulsions. Situations reported in the six letters reveal inespecificity of questions addressed and hybridization of modes of understanding of children who do not fit in school, combining demands for familial interventions, contemporary psychiatric diagnoses and psychologization processes, reproducing medicalization practices and consequently pharmacologization and pathologization.

Keywords : Medicalization; Neurology referrals; specialized education; school inclusion.

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