DISCAPACIDAD Y REPRESENTACIÓN SOCIAL: UNA INDAGACIÓN DESDE LA REVISTA EL NIÑO LIMITADO. CHILE, 1969-1973

Abstract

Through the review of El Niño Limitado magazine, in its first stage (1969-1973), we examine the textual and visual contents elaborated regarding children’s disability. From that point of view, we examine the historicity of categories such as “abnormality”, “deficit” and “limitation”, together with studying and understanding the construction of school otherness from a specific topic and publication, making a critical reading of a printed medium not yet approached from the perspective of social representations. In our opinion, the study of this publication allows us to approach the representation of a “limited childhood”, built from central ideas such as deficit, compassion, education and work, and from cognitive images focused on a deficient childhood, on specialized teachers, on the family as emotional support and on the State as guarantor of a future social and working life.