Policy / on difference and Latin American training of teachers. Discussions about the other

Abstract

This text intends to interweave some ideas brought up during conversations which took place in the encounters amongst professionals from some special and common schools from Argentina, Chile and Brazil, related to applied knowledge by professors, pupils and families, based on interrogations, hopes and uncertainties that the new proposal of the so called “inclusive school”, has raised in the daily life of pupils. What inspires the autohor of this article is the possibility of speaking about “inclusion”, in a sense which does not mean erasing the differences with the purpose of making “the other” some one the same as me, but, assume the necessary negotiation of senses for the building of possible schools each one with dignity for all different people. These encounters have been coordinated by the author since 1998 to this date, and the outcome narratives form a part of her actual investigation.