Representaciones sociales docentes y neurociencias educativas: posibles vínculos para el caso argentino en torno al aula intercultural

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to introduce a research project in progress that analyzes, from a sociological perspective based in social representations analysis, how discourses on educational neuroscience are articulated with the ways that intercultural relations within the school space are managed. The hypothesis that guides the research suggests that the social representations that members of the educational field construct about the presence and the school performance of children of migrant origin, are influenced by the relevance of the normalizing discourses of the educational neurosciences that are established as new modalities of management, discipline and social control of diversity (migratory) in the school, contributing to the reproduction of exclusion processes. The general objective of the project is to investigate how discourses coming from researches in the field of educational neuroscience, developed from 1990 to the present, influence the social representations of members of primary and secondary schools in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires on migratory diversity. The purpose is to focus on the presence of discourses tending to legitimize stigmatizing pedagogical actions on migrant otherness.