"The problem is always at school” critical reflections on medicalization of children and adolescents in schooling
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This article discusses the medicalization of children and adolescents undergoing schooling
in a critical perspective, addressing its ideological and deterministic character linked to a naturalizing
interpretation of the phenomena and related to the disregard for the conditions of social and historical
reality. In the face of the pathologizing aspect of the medicalization of schooling difficulties, it critically
discusses the supposed ADHD based on Vigotski’s historical-cultural approach. As a result of the
qualitative research carried out, it presents and discusses narratives of those responsible for the students
sent for evaluation and monitoring in health services for not adjusting to school standards. By reflecting
on “the problem is always at school”, it is intended to contribute to the critical reading and rupture
of the medicalization of education.
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