ABSTRACT
Based on the principles of historical-cultural psychology, especially in Vygotsky’s studies of defectology, this work aimed to identify emerging semiotic mediations between teacher-students and student-student in a collaborative activity in the inclusive classroom. The impact of these mediations on the development of students in the process of knowledge construction was analyzed. The study was developed from a microgenetic analysis, with the analysis of a videotaped research episode in a third year class of elementary school. The episode involved a student with Down syndrome, a regular student and a teacher. In the analysis, original forms of understanding and meaning of knowledge emerged based on the pedagogical exchanges between these actors.
Keywords:
mediation; construction of knowledge; inclusion