Attention to the functional diversity on primary education

Abstract

Despite the multiple studies that confirm the relevance of placing value on classrooms diversity through strategies oriented to inclusive education, we still find evident manifestations of school segregation. This study, using the Focus Group technique, identifies supports and obstacles in the field of primary education, that are perceived by educational team. For this, issues related to social imaginary of diversity, attitudes, demands, myths, prejudices and limitations, both internal and external, among others, are analysed. The tendency to link the concept of diversity to functional diversity stands out (which marks the rest of the analysis of the reality of this study), the difficulty of adapting heterogeneity in learning rhythms to the homogenization of academic results required, the preponderance of formal content over cross-cutting and a bureaucracy that encourages formal curricular adaptations. In the educational community, they identify situations of rejection and discriminatory attitudes transmitted by the relatives of norm-typical students regarding functional diversity and an insufficient implication in the consolidation of inclusive school spaces in a considerable percentage of the teaching staff. Therefore, it is necessary to place value on diversity and on the benefits of inclusion for society as a whole.