From awareness to empowerment: the rehabilitation of the body and soul, starting from the value of difference


Abstract

Anthropologist Robert Murphy in "The Body Silent" depicts how "becoming disabled" manifests itself as a progressive loss of accessibility and estrangement from the world. The experience of disability, analyzed from the inside, highlights the contrasts between the subjectivity of awareness of "disability" and the objectivity of living conditions and services required for citizenship. Can the school system, by identifying with the individual processes of "disabling", act on the identities of the students, and explore all the aspects that interact and determine their educational and relational experience? The intersectional didactic construct is based on the awareness of the influence of the different identity markers of the students on their educational and life path. The administration of a questionnaire to students of the specialization course for support teachers at Uniba has allowed to share meanings related to prejudice and to build a self-assessment tool that allows to monitor the effectiveness of strategies Inclusive aimed at strengthening the awareness and empowerment of students with Special Educational Needs.