INCLUSION AS A NEED FOR NEOLIBERALISM AND THE PROCESSES OF IN/EXCLUSION AT SCHOOL

Abstract

This writing is a choice to take the risks of placing under suspicion what has been produced in official discourses in favor of school inclusion. It is a brief analysis of the discursive recurrences of official documents that have as their central focus the defense of inclusive education. It takes official documents as products and producers of meanings about inclusion and inclusive schools, which operate within the logic of neoliberalism as a way of life. Seeking to problematize inclusion as a necessity of neoliberalism and its effects on school inclusion/exclusion processes, the analysis was inspired by Foucauldian Studies in Education, based on post-structuralist thinking. In neoliberal society, it is necessary to govern everyone, so that everyone is able to participate in the game posed by the logic of competition. To compete you must be included. In this scenario, an exercise in problematization is advocated, which raises suspicions about events taken for granted, such as the overcoming of exclusion with the advent of global school inclusion movements. And with that, denouncing school practices that, by capturing difference, are more aligned with supporting the norm that excludes, than in fact, are busy investing in inclusive school practices.