Approaching stereotypes and prejudices in training: The issue of social representations related to disabilities

Abstract

This text examines the role of stereotypes and prejudices in training programmes on issues relating to disability, drawing on the theory of social representations and a socio-historical approach to visuality and discourse. The analysis is structured around three main themes: historicity – the way in which past images and frameworks (particularly colonial ones) continue to shape perspectives in training; the role of moral entrepreneurs and the dynamics of moral panics that moralise certain training topics; and the spectacular dimension – how media coverage and repetition transform stereotypes into archetypes of memory. The aim here is twofold: to produce a theoretical synthesis that links social representations and regimes of visibility, and to critically examine practical tools for education aimed at deconstructing stereotypes.

Keywords: disability, prejudices, social representations, stereotypes, training.