DIVERSITYAND DIFFERENCE: SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS IN THE EDUCATIONAL SPACE

This article is a narrative review, and its objective was to identify the panorama of national academic production relevant to the themes of diversity and difference from the perspective of the Theory of Social Representations in the field of Education. Academic and scientific literature have published several studies that investigate these social phenomena. In this direction, we seek to deepen the theme by conducting research in the bases of articles and indexed journals, such as the Portal of Journals of CAPES and SCIELO, relating to the years 2010 to 2018. Throughout the text, after the descriptive analysis of the works, proceeded to a qualitative interpretation of the works. The results indicated that the number of studies dealing with diversity and difference in the educational space is incipient and, when presented, they are crossed by the phenomenon of inclusion of people with disabilities or address the issue of sexual and racial diversity. In this sense, diversity and difference do not suit everyone, as they only include certain categories and leave out the others. It was possible to notice that these themes are still delicate in the context of Education. The issue of diversity and difference in education suggests a discussion about the various processes of social exclusion and the school's participation in these processes.