Social change guided by an idea of justice is the most difficult human endeavor. It requires combating entrenched powers, hierarchies and profitable interests. In changes like this, those above go down and those below go up. Someone always loses, if we understand the promotion of justice as the defeat of those who benefited from injustice.
A with a project like this. In addition to providing goals, rights and duties, it divided responsibilities to those who should lead the process. There have been collective failures and successes throughout these almost 40 years of democratic constitutionalism.
Among its successes, it offers some of the most inspiring examples, especially in the education of children with disabilities. An international vanguard. The State gradually built a normative framework and public policy guided by the principle of inclusive education.
It means that they must be supplemented by special educational assistance in accordance with their singularities. We took steps to overcome the practice of school segregation, where the line between “normality” and “disability” determines whether the child has the conditions to develop autonomy, whether they even have the chance of plural education.
In line with international consensus, we realize that the “full development of the person”, “preparation for the exercise of citizenship” and “qualification for work”, which make up the constitutional right to education (art. 205), are enhanced by the inclusive model. There children learn to deal more radically with difference, conflict, cooperation and creativity. They have better opportunities to be prepared for social, political and economic life.
The path between inclusive and inclusive philosophy has many practical challenges. Traditional establishments such as APAEs and Pestalozzis continue to offer “specialized educational services” and receive public resources for this supplementary role.
under the leadership of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship, . The decree did not make any major changes to current legislation and constitutional jurisprudence, it only reinforces and consolidates it. It does not cut resources or close rooms, it just regulates special services more carefully.
Group of parliamentarians, especially from the PL, PP and Republican parties, suddenly. The objective would be to defend the “family’s right” to opt for a segregated education model, even if this reduces the right of children with disabilities to their best development. It ignores that “family law” is not a constitutional category, but rather the “duty of the State and the family” to provide education.
It is yet another serious example of anti-liberal and anti-pluralist forces that have captured, as we have not seen in recent decades, the . After all, collective emancipation is your defeat. Preserving hierarchies and structures of domination and exclusion is your victory. Against women, black people, indigenous people, favela residents and even people with disabilities.
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