Seminar "The daily life of Inclusion: School, University, State" discussed the debt with inclusion

Researchers, representatives of the Ministry of Education, as well as the Human Rights Institute, teachers, teachers, parents, students met on August 5 at the Pontificia Universidad Católica to participate in the seminar that presented the experience of teachers participating in the training process on inclusion of the Project Rings in Social Sciences and Humanities Normality, Difference and Education-NDE (SOC 1103).

“The number of people who attended our seminar, despite the rainy day, speaks highly of the response our research and training work has had with practicing teachers. In this sense, the objective of linking teachers who participated with us in the research, as well as professionals from the General Education Division of the Ministry of Education, generated a productive and critical conversation. This was precisely our goal,” said the academic from the Pontificia Universidad Católica, Claudia Matús. Along with this, he added that the variety of public present speaks of the requirements that the different actors have and the need to debate around these issues; “difference, inclusion, discriminatory practices in school spaces are issues that motivate people to want to discuss from different places: from public action, policy design and research. There is a clear and manifest interest, that is the most relevant thing”.

In a year in which the discussion around the reforms that the government has promoted to improve the educational system has been the center of the national debate, the NDE Interdisciplinary Research Platform has considered it important to publicize the experience of his research, in which The pedagogical practices of teachers have been central and therefore, it is directly related to the public policies that are in force in the Chilean educational system.. Coordinator National Inclusion and Diversity of the Ministry of Education, Catalina Opazo, pointed out that the challenge that complements inclusion is that the focus of public policies has been placed on the needs of specific individuals or groups and this must be combined with a general approach to transformation of the school community, "to Talking about inclusion we must talk about the interactions of educational communities.”

The vision presented was ratified from the perspective of the National Institute of Human Rights: "the Human rights are based on the idea of ​​the enormous diversity that each human being possesses; we are all different, but equal in rights., said Enrique Azua, head of the INDH's Education Unit. Along the same lines, Azua indicated that, although Human Rights have a more complex vision, they start from the base of equal rights and the current challenge is not only to accept this premise but also to make inclusion real and possible based on it. .

The attendees of the activity were satisfied with the conclusions and asked that they be provided with digital material on the subject, they also had the opportunity to present the challenges that they consider that the various actors present have –researchers, professors, professors and Mineduc. The differential professor attending the seminar, Alicia Monroy, recounted that: "I have had experiences in municipal institutions and now in subsidized ones and I feel that the everyday is what moves the most nowI feel that from there it is the basis to continue working because although we can have many theoretical references, In the everyday, in the practical, is where we can affirm and reaffirm ourselves ".