with the absolute democratization of
information
we keep putting our kids
in school
What does a parent expect when I decide
put your child inside a school
me this question was answered by a
father 20 years ago
the father of a boy in a school where I
worked in the violent neighborhood of
savior
This father, she was a drug dealer and told me
how much he struggled to maintain the
son in the school
he told me that he wanted the
son had a life different from life
that he lived
he told me that his life was a
Life of Bandit and Life of Bandit is a
a short and intense life of danger and
that he did not want for his son
the impossibility of seeing your child
grow as it might happen to him
myself and he told me that the only
way to make this child
had his life changed had he
longer life safer and farther away
of criminality would be the
education
This father was a great teacher to
me he taught me two things
very important
the first one that after that
encounter I would never have
possibility of looking at the phenomenon
about a single perspective for 20 years
ago was very difficult for me.
imagine that a person involved with the
crime could have as serious an inten-
noble in relation to your son
the second extremely important teaching
important thing he gave me is that
some way all the father all mother
When I decided to put a child in school
he expects the school to produce a
series perry a series of
transformations of experiences and
life-altering experiences
this boy or that girl
now this transformation if we
let’s think
it changes with historical time maybe
50 years ago
the expectation of a father when he put
This son of the school is that the school
discipline this child to organize
this child to instrumentalize if this
child for him to develop
be part of society and maybe today
the expectation of parents has changed
we are talking about a
school 50 years ago that was
supported by a model of society that
we would call society
discipline a society where it is up to
subject to get out of hand
freedoms to be able to be part of a
collective
a company that was governed by
idea of duty
not by chance the school of 50 years
ago she had some
characteristics that resembled a
factory a prison
in these three institutions the people
they are uniformed
there is a logic of obedience
represented by people who must say
the time to come and go
there are beeps warning you that
happens there are a number of things to
be produced therein
in this time of today in this time of our
net company
we seem to be more free seems
that we do not live this logic anymore
It seems that disciplinary action can
now adjust the collective to our
subjectivity
It seems that we can do things.
in a different way and in fact people
can but we have to pay a price
and price is the price of performance
price is the price of the result and this
is no different with the lives of
children
we live in the right education
paradox because we continue
wanting children queued inside
from school
we still wish children break
enough so as not to disturb the
Classroom Transmissible Logic
but at the same time we want you to
creative and innovative
reality that change the
our world
and this is a paradox now imagine
when a child can not
solve this story
when a child can not give
account of making these two
seemingly opposite dimensions with
exist in a more or less
acceptable what we do to people
review the project we review a
interconnected set of
circumstances the agent says no
It’s about a sick child.
of a child with a small
biochemical imbalance and for this
We have medical leave.
realizable
we are talking about the medicalization of
childhood we are talking about
medicalization of medical education
smooth does not have to see how it is of flesh
necessarily there are children who
need medication there are
children who are sick there are children
with disorders there are children who
have consistent diagnoses and that the
pharmacotherapy is a strategy in a
set of strategies to do with
that this child lives better
It’s good that we can count on
this but when a child presents
in the zig zag of your days some kind of
deviation from our expectation
we can not reduce this dimension
there is a single variable that is
the biochemical variable and believe
almost in a magical thought that
there is a certain substance that
will solve all these problems at
medicalization is a way of
discipline our boys and girls
for them to ensure our
performance expectancy
perhaps medicalization is a
solution to this paradox that I
I mentioned a little while ago when
We’re going to supervise kids.
boys and girls
We are doing a disservice to the
its development by providing a
disservice to the classroom by providing
education.
we are also corrupting the largest and
more important contribution than the
child can give to society that is
live your childhood
being a child has nothing to do with having
childhood is to have a child.
the age criterion there attended those
children that go more or less until
at that age and master’s degree or
living the childhood is a set of
symbolic experiences that guarantee
that this child develops and these
symbolic experiences have been
culturally agreed
now my question is ours
an adult or centric society that
sees these children under the
The adult world perspective gives these
children the chances of living their
childhood our society can
to see these phenomena with the
eyes of the child
the same society that medicalizes
with which fathers and mothers passes each time
less time with your kids and us
we know that it is development that
is linked to the environment the better
is the interaction of the child with
environment will be better
development and because parents in some
the world spend 40 minutes with
your children every day
sheltered under the fallacy that the
quality can account for the quantity
because we expose our children to
so irresponsible the excess of the
technology is not the
Bad girl, she does well.
she is cool if she is made if she
is used within an acceptable time and
some adult mediation but the last
data from Brazil show that our
boys and girls are using
technology in a way absolutely
irresponsible and without any mediation
of the adult world
this same society adopted centric
fills our boys and girls with a
series of activities that are not
children’s own activities
example if a poor child in Brazil
She’s going to have to work to survive.
and if she has a little more money
it creates a busy schedule of
commitments that do not give them time
breathe
that same company makes
our children are imprisoned
child in some parts of the world
less outdoor time than
their prisoners
a child in some places of the world
less outdoor time than
prisoners and when this arrest does not
it’s real it’s not concrete it’s not
palpable
we give a way to create other
prisons as the example of
the medicalization of childhood
societies that realized that prioritizing
childhood is a good business does well
to the collective have better results in
education in public security in
health and to finish I wanted to
end with a story from another
child I met some 15 years ago
ago I was a university professor .
and I supervised student of
psychology that would have to meet in
psychotherapy a child with a
diagnosis and tvh this child
destroyed a number of
This school does not
I could stay inside the room to be
This child was
his first moments on the steps of
school clinic fire because it is the
only place where she could stay
we closed the entrance and exit of
preserve a clown for that
courageous student of psychology
to realize you start your
work for us to do
with that child to enter the room
effectively closed doors we
we took six months
This child did not have this
child was a neglected child
by his mother who was addicted to
psychoactive substances and that
prostitute to ensure their addiction
detour in a very simple room
and when that mother and prostitute her
locked the child inside a
oven off but locked inside
an oven and locked with broom handle
this child had several
burn in your body
Now my question to us is will be
What are we willing to wait for?
six months to get a
child in the room to talk
with someone modifying a whole logic
of teaching that that student
took five years to learn or will be
that it would be easier to say no she has
a chemical problem
let’s go to her this medicine let’s go
magically believe that everything will
solve
This child was a great teacher.
to me she taught me two things
the first one very important not
Can we look at a child?
with an adult look and the second of them
it takes much more than a father and
a mother to raise children
We need the father we ask.
mother we need family
extended
we need the neighborhood community of
school
we need the state and therefore people I
I wanted to finish with a sentence that I
I always repeat before we medicalize
our boys and girls let’s think
that my son is your problem and yours
son, it’s my problem, thank you
[Applause]
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