Inclusão e desenvolvimento. A face oculta da exclusão escolar

• Autor(a) principal: Baptista, José Afonso
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.7559/gestaoedesenvolvimento.2010.132

The exclusion from school, the origin of social exclusion, has the dimension of a true world calamity, also assuming unacceptable proportions at a national level. The consequences are unemployment, hunger, misery, organized robbery and violent crime. Millions of unproductive citizens are paying no taxes and surviving under the protection of social systems that we all pay. In our country, with the exception of the higher education, access to school is guaranteed but we still have hundreds of thousands of pupils interrupting their school progression, with huge financial losses and social problems that do not benefit anyone. There are several ways throughout the world in which people can be excluded from school: children and adults are deprived of access to school, pupils are excluded early from school, people with special education needs (disabled or not) are excluded because the school has not learned to teach them, and all the students that are victims of a school model organized for the systematic exclusion of an important part of their pupils. A world movement has emerged trying to respond to this calamity and prevent the uncalculated losses. This movement aims to guarantee the education of all citizens, without exception, generating conditions to access school in the undeveloped countries and conceiving new education and school models in the developed communities, able to educate all without exclusion and leaving no child behind. This movement is being carried under the coordination of the United Nations Organization and their Agencies, with a significant contribution from some countries and the commitment of the community of nations.