INCLUSIVE EDUCATION: DIFFERENCES AMONG ACCESS, ACCESSIBILITY AND INCLUSION

Abstract

The present article aims to distinguish among access, accessibility, and inclusion, based on the assumption that these categories have been used as if they were synonymous in the schooling of people with disabilities. The construction of this synonymy is analyzed and discussed critically. To demonstrate the epistemological, pedagogical and political differences among these categories that are structural to special education, from the perspective of inclusive education, the proposals of universal design were methodologically recovered and analyzed with the contribution of Brazilian and foreign authors. In the different ways of interpreting the use of design, the specificity of inclusion emerges as political power. It was concluded that the possibility of designing the school as an inclusive ecosystem lies in the uniqueness of inclusion.