Subjective Processes of Adult Education Students with Intellectual Disabilities: The Idea Diary as a Learning Alternative
Intellectual Disability; EJA; Inclusion; Theory of Subjectivity; Journal of Ideas.
This research emerged from concerns about the challenges in the process of including students with intellectual disabilities (ID) in Youth and Adult Education (EJA), with emphasis on issues related to automatic promotion processes associated with the lack of learning assurance. The study employs the Diary of Ideas methodology and aims to: investigate how the educational trajectories of ID students included in EJA have been subjectively shaped by their experiences of non-learning in regular education — marked by automatic promotion/continuous progression — and to analyze how the Diary of Ideas project has mobilized their subjective production and contributed to the construction of meaningful learning processes.The investigation will be carried out in a school in the Federal District that offers EJA and will be theoretically grounded in González Rey’s Theory of Subjectivity (1997, 2002, 2003, 2017). From this perspective, the Qualitative Epistemology and the Theory of Subjectivity form an inseparable unity, giving the theory an explicit epistemological character, such that the epistemology organizes the basic principles of the constructiveinterpretative methodology underlying this theoretical framework.The methodological foundation recognizes research as a dynamic process of construction in which the constructive-interpretative nature, dialogical character, and the singular as a legitimate space for the construction of scientific knowledge are intertwined. The research instruments will serve as means to facilitate the participants’ expression in a dialogical relationship with the researcher. This dynamic favors the construction of a theoretical model of the studied phenomenon, which will ultimately unfold into a dissertation.