RESIGNIFYING THE SCHOOL COMPLAINT: PARQUE’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEMEDICALIZATION OF EDUCATION

Abstract

ABSTRACT This research aimed to evaluate a program of attention and resignification of school complaints and its contributions to the confrontation of pathologization and medicalization of school phenomena. The theoretical framework guiding the entire research was based on the historical-cultural perspective of Psychology and Critical School Psychology. The information was obtained through individual semi-structured interviews, carried out with four elementary school teachers from a Basic Education school in the federal education network, and analyzed through qualitative thematic content analysis. The results showed that the Program studied contributed to the participants’ broadening their understanding of school complaints, starting to recognize the teaching activity and institutional relationships as constituents of it. The collective spaces of listening and dialogic exchange about the challenges present in the schooling process provided by the Program were fundamental to face the pathologization and medicalization of school phenomena.