Abstract
Students with difficulties in schooling have been medicalized, although the main cause of these difficulties is deficiencies of the educational system. They are doubly punished, with serious reflexes for their school and social life. Teachers, for their importance in school, should receive training that critically addresses medicalization, from initial training. From this perspective, a pedagogical proposal was developed with undergraduate students in Pedagogy at the University of Natal / RN, in the context of theoretical discipline, aiming at transforming their understanding of the theme and thinking about the adoption of play as a coping strategy of the phenomenon. The initial diagnosis of student understanding revealed little or no information about medicalization and restricted understanding of play, limited to the contribution to children's learning. The evaluation after sharing different jokes, reading texts, poems and case studies on medicalization in education revealed that this pedagogical mediation contributed to qualify students' understanding.
Keywords:
Medicalization; play; pedagogy; University graduate