This study investigates the relation between a significant amount of the discourse which advocates "Inclusive Education" and the rhetorical trends of contemporary discourse which, rather than constituting an effective form of resistance against social and educational exclusion devices, contributes to the configuration of the field of alterity in education under the predictable sign of stereotype. In this sense, a critical analysis will be done aiming to clarify the rhetorical figures which mask, with the use of euphemism and empty, "politically correct" discourse, the actual exclusion devices which reside at the base of a good many pedagogical enterprises.
educational inclusion; contemporary rhetoric; alterity