Excluded bodies in contemporary Colombian public schools: discourses and practices

Abstract

The body as a scenario of exclusion in the Colombian public school, is a proposal
that consists of a descriptive exercise, motivated mainly by a practical classroom
experience in an educational institution in Sabaneta, Antioquia, in the tenth and
eleventh grades, and then the reading of authors such as Pablo Scharagrodsky,
Mascareño, Martínez, among others, as well as normative and constitutional
guidelines. The work is framed in the question of the body as a scene of encounters,
disagreements, possibilities, but at the same time of tensions and interdictions that
regulate it and configure a specific social environment. The reflection examines
segregationist practices and discourses about a body that exceeds physiology
and that is constituted by teachers and students as a territory in which ideas that
promote an exclusive and legitimate order over time, which segregate certain bodily
conditions such as color, underlie skin, physiognomy, social orientation, gender, or
religious orientation.