Biosocial emergencies and medicalisation at school: what are the risks?
Mirca Montanari
The emergence of new educational problems, provoked by the unexpected and unprecedented global health emergency, has produced a dramatic and disorienting impact on children and adolescents, especially those with special educational needs. The theoretical study proposed is directed at probing the wide and heterogeneous range of discomforts caused by the inevitable and radical change in lifestyles, in particular school lifestyles. In addition, attention is focused on the possible risks of the medicalisation and psychologisation of the behavioural displays of pupils who suffer from the imposition of physical isolation in educational contexts, which were once dedicated to building and consolidating bonds and relationships. The complexity demands an authentic educational care so that differences and diversities are valued in the mutual dialogue between Medicine and Special Pedagogy.
Keywords
Coronavirus, educational emergencies, special educational needs, medicalisation, special didactics.
