Por falar em ausência... : as pessoas com deficiência

• Autor(a) principal: Renders, Elizabete Cristina Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/353
• topic: Crianças deficientes - Inclusão social; igrejas e deficientes; teologia social; igrejas e problemas sociais; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA

This thesis considers an interface between two fields of knowledge, education and theology, based on the new educational paradigm of inclusion. Assuming the perspective of handicapped people it is ask to which extent the education of inclusion may enrich the theological discourse, and the discourse of theologians may contribute towards social and educational inclusion of handicapped people. Anthropology gives the tom of this interface, because, in an historic perspective, the issue was discussed based on religious anthropologies dichotomist and exclusive. We consider, therefore, the overcoming of the exclusive Cartesian paradigms that mark the contemporary society, society this accustoming to classify the people, and to hierarchies them concerning its differences. In these terms, the sociology of absence assists us in the understanding of the mechanisms of segregation and exclusion of handicapped people (both: in education and theology) and points with respect to the necessary valuation of the social experiences of handicapped people with deficiency - respecting the diversity and valuing the difference. The thesis is developed, therefore, as a promotion of the visibility of handicapped people both, in the theological discourse, as well as in the ecclesiastic sphere (considering the dialectic dimension of this relation). We understand that this is a necessary undertaking, already initiated by some theologians, when the same ones speak of the importance of reciprocal recognition, the dignity of the vulnerability of human beings and the ethical challenge that inclusion means to us all inclusion understood as recognition of the interdependence and the necessity to find ways to make solidarity in social settings become reality (accessibility). However, these categories represent up to now only small openings of the theological door, because, in its majority, nor the theological speeches and nor the ecclesiast spaces promote the visibility of handicapped people.