This study aimed to identify the contributions of the discipline of “Disabilities and Inclusion” offered by the Specialization Course on Gender and Diversity at School (GDS) to promote inclusive educational processes for people with disabilities in basic education. Nine GDS students who were professionals from educational area participated in the research. The information was obtained through a focus group, recorded with the participants’ consent and analyzed based on the thematic content analysis method. The results indicated that there was a change in conception of disability, previously based in charitable and/or in biomedical conceptions, now more in line with the Social Model of Disability and with the precepts of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In addition, the knowledge obtained by the participants contributed to the construction of pedagogical strategies more focused on the inclusion of people with disabilities considering their specificities.

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.

RESUMO Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo avaliar um programa de atenção e ressignificação da queixa escolar e suas contribuições para o enfrentamento da patologização e medicalização dos fenômenos escolares. O referencial teórico norteador de toda a pesquisa foi fundamentado na perspectiva histórico-cultural da Psicologia e na Psicologia Escolar Crítica. As informações foram obtidas através de entrevistas semiestruturadas individuais, realizadas com quatro professoras do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola de Educação Básica da rede federal de ensino, e analisadas por meio de análise de conteúdo temática de cunho qualitativo. Os resultados apontaram que o Programa estudado contribuiu para as participantes ampliarem a compreensão da queixa escolar, passando a reconhecer a atividade docente e as relações institucionais como constituintes dela. Os espaços coletivos de escuta e troca dialógica acerca dos desafios presentes no processo de escolarização oportunizados pelo Programa foram fundamentais para o enfrentamento da patologização e medicalização dos fenômenos escolares.