A hora e a vez da família em uma sociedade inclusiva: problematizando discursos oficiais

Abstract

The present dissertation aims at problematizing the discourses of inclusion policies and their effects of truth on the production of families of disabled people. Such analytical task has been developed considering the materiality of official documents produced by the Ministry of Education together with the Secretary of Special Education. Its focus of analysis has been the publications Time of family in an inclusive society (BRASIL, 2006) and Inclusive education: the family (BRASIL, 2004). Considering studies in the post-structuralist perspective on education as well as some contributions of Foucauldian thoughts, I have analyzed the discourses of inclusion policies in an attempt to understand how families of disabled people have been narrated and produced by those discourses and how inclusion has been positioned as necessary to these families. In a strategic return to Modernity, I have been able to understand the emergence of discourses that, from my point of view, have created the possibility conditions for the current constitution of inclusion policies, as well as the place of the family of disabled people in this scenery. On analyzing the discursive recurrences about inclusion, I have attempted to show that inclusion policies are a more effective form of surveillance that invests on the population of disabled subjects, triggering different mechanisms that seek to manage the risk of that population being excluded. This has allowed for the comprehension that, in the contemporary context, inclusion policies are an imperative, a metanarrative, legitimated by different fields of knowledge. Thus, inclusion policies are constituted as an economy to the State, which on investing on disabled people trigger different strategies; among them are the families of these subjects, who are produced as both a target and an agent of inclusion policies.