The purpose of this article - a theoretical essay - is to conduct a discussion about stigma and its manifestations in the school curriculum, based on the notion of Hidden Curriculum. This discussion will be held using as background the processes of schooling for students with disabilities. The processes of stigmatization in the context of social life are many and have multiple manifestations. The stigma is directly dependent on the existence of some form of judgment that creates categories of subjects considered socially "discredited". This can affect so overpowering in the process of identity formation and how institutions such as schools deals with the processes of teaching and learning for students who have historically been stigmatized, such as students with disabilities. The stigmatization and discrimination situations are social constructions and are embodied in the context of the curriculum; embodied on the so-called formal corpus of school knowledge (curricular content), in the everyday actions of the school (curriculum in action) and the denominated Hidden curriculum. The legitimacy and ideological developments are settled down on inexplicit and implicit aspects of the curriculum and are located in its materiality and the symbolic domain. In these two areas the issues of education for people with disabilities can be observed in situations that reveal the stigma and prejudice in the apparently inclusion school. In the excitement of "Inclusive Education", researches in the confluence between the curriculum and the stigma may be appropriate in the pursuit of a curriculum construction toward human diversity.
Curriculum; Stigma; Special Educacion; National Association of Post-Graduation and Research