Cláudia Rodrigues de Freitas

Medicalização dos Modos de Ser e de Aprender

This article analyzes the modes of being and learning in school, considering medicalization as a device that transforms human life behaviors in pathologies. We invest in the historical-conceptual dimension, discussing this process. The school events here presented provide visibility to the practice of inventing diagnoses that justify the non-learning. The article is built on Foucault’s thinking, particularly in relation to the strategy of subjectivity constitution by discourse. The analysis focuses on the comprehension of the ever-changing human condition, while it discusses school practices and pathologizing discourses.

ADHD, education and culture: an interview with Ilina Singh (Part 1)

Apresentamos aqui a primeira de uma série de três entrevistas(c) realizadas com Ilina Singh que, no seu conjunto, explorarão aspectos de sua ampla produção acadêmica acerca do Transtorno de Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade (TDAH). Priorizamos alguns dos deslocamentos operados ao longo de sua trajetória de pesquisa, os movimentos e as contigências que a levaram a empreender determinados tipos de investigação, bem como a importância de se considerar o TDAH de modo biossocial. Na segunda parte, exploraremos algumas questões acerca das possibilidades de uso de psicoestimulantes (como a Ritalina) com fins de aprimoramento (enhancement) e situaremos a questão do TDAH no âmbito da globalização ou da “saúde mental global”. A terceira parte se dedicará a ponderar algumas discussões que possibilitem pensar em termos de uma agenda política, ética, médica, social e educacional para lidar com o TDAH. Fo nt e: h tt ps :/ /w w w .p sy ch .o x. ac .u k/ te am /i lin asi ng h

TDAH, educación y cultura: una entrevista con Ilina Singh (Parte 1)

Apresentamos aqui a primeira de uma série de três entrevistas(c) realizadas com Ilina Singh que, no seu conjunto, explorarão aspectos de sua ampla produção acadêmica acerca do Transtorno de Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade (TDAH). Priorizamos alguns dos deslocamentos operados ao longo de sua trajetória de pesquisa, os movimentos e as contigências que a levaram a empreender determinados tipos de investigação, bem como a importância de se considerar o TDAH de modo biossocial. Na segunda parte, exploraremos algumas questões acerca das possibilidades de uso de psicoestimulantes (como a Ritalina) com fins de aprimoramento (enhancement) e situaremos a questão do TDAH no âmbito da globalização ou da “saúde mental global”. A terceira parte se dedicará a ponderar algumas discussões que possibilitem pensar em termos de uma agenda política, ética, médica, social e educacional para lidar com o TDAH. Fo nt e: h tt ps :/ /w w w .p sy ch .o x. ac .u k/ te am /i lin asi ng h

TDAH, educação e cultura: uma entrevista com Ilina Singh (Parte 1)

Apresentamos aqui a primeira de uma série de três entrevistas(c) realizadas com Ilina Singh que, no seu conjunto, explorarão aspectos de sua ampla produção acadêmica acerca do Transtorno de Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade (TDAH). Priorizamos alguns dos deslocamentos operados ao longo de sua trajetória de pesquisa, os movimentos e as contigências que a levaram a empreender determinados tipos de investigação, bem como a importância de se considerar o TDAH de modo biossocial. Na segunda parte, exploraremos algumas questões acerca das possibilidades de uso de psicoestimulantes (como a Ritalina) com fins de aprimoramento (enhancement) e situaremos a questão do TDAH no âmbito da globalização ou da “saúde mental global”. A terceira parte se dedicará a ponderar algumas discussões que possibilitem pensar em termos de uma agenda política, ética, médica, social e educacional para lidar com o TDAH. Fo nt e: h tt ps :/ /w w w .p sy ch .o x. ac .u k/ te am /i lin asi ng h

Livro acessível: o encantamento na ponta dos dedos

This study analyzes a research/extension organized in the University, which aimed at discussing and elaborating accessible books for children. The actions happened in two modules and were carried by undergraduate students, university professors, basic education teachers, and graduate (masters and doctorate) students. The theoretical framework for the research are the studies of Nuernberg (on visual and tactile perception), Vigotsky (on social interactionism and language), Cardeal (on tactile illustrations in books), and Abramovich (on supporting the book as an object of enchantment). The working methodology was based on weekly meetings of the proposing group and biweekly meetings for the extension group. The meetings happened in times when the theoretical studies and the production and analyses of books with tactile illustrations were possible. From the analysis of the research and production process, some indications were recognized as useful in the preparation of an accessible book: defining the story and previously choosing the materials to be used; reflecting on the organization and distribution of the tactile illustrations in the book; defining the appropriate glue from the tests; the writing, after having delimited a fixed space in the book pages’ layout would allow the child to search for the text even if devoid of vision. The story text was printed using ink and braille. The children who had access to the books produced by the group showed their enchantment in using them.

Philip dos Civilizados, o selvagem da Selva de Pedra

This article analyzes the ways of organizing life and the learning processes of a boy experiencing psychic distress and social abandonment from the moment he receives care at a school facility. The experience involves the organization of a network of conversations among those who live with Philip, a boy who was referred to the Special Education Services (SES) based on the autism diagnosis, one of the disorders in the category of Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD). The assistance center proposed was aimed at expanding the way of living and learning of Philip. The interventions come up and develop themselves from the invention of playing and become visible through eye contact, smiles, when handling objects that are part of everyday life and mainly by interacting with people around him. The insertion and invention of/in the educational space is aimed at transforming the suffering in life and learning possibilities. The result of this work creates structural transformations in the coexistence between Philip and all the individuals that interact with him. When consolidated conversation networks enable the construction of knowledge areas that are able to support another way of living.

A “Normalidade”: conceito de quantas faces?

This paper is intended to analyze how the concept of “normality”, divided in normal and abnormal, has been taking shape in our time, based on Canguilhem’s and Foucault’s views. By analyzing the theory, I recognize evidence of a process of biologization of life which revisits itself and takes new shapes over the last years through the process of medicalization. Medicalization is the current controlling device and cannot be boiled down to prescribing medication, but we can also think of it as a gear, as a machine that transforms life into objects. As evidence of this analysis, a school situation intended to illustrate the concepts addressed is presented. The aforementioned situation was observed at the Municipal School System of Porto Alegre. Scholastic discourse generates different ways of acting and living in the school, but is it intended to do so?