"Los discapacitados sociales". La política de Educación Especial durante la última dictadura argentina

This article examines specific aspects of the social / symbolic repression undertaken by the last Argentinian Dictatorship (1976-1983) in the field of education, and how these relate to the dominant discourses and ideologies of their time. In those days, the construct of the «social disabled» was established as part of me wider category of Special Education, equating it to the rest of physical disabilities, in an attempt by the Dictatorship to suppress dissidence. Additionally, a critical analysis of the educational policies dealing with the area of Special Education is outlined in order to show the conniving role of the educational institutions in promoting and reinforcing the oppressive ideological atmosphere imposed by the military dictatorship.