Upholding collective thinking through taboo topics in an inclusive EFL environment

Abstract

In the educational Colombian context, especially in the capital, we can see how day to day students have radical positions or opinion towards social topics, which incidentally make them segregate even in small groups and think about their particular interests, formulating conflict when debating. Regularly, we would think in some spaces such as the inclusive environments these social barriers would be regulated, however, in these places we can observe higher segregation because they are focused on emphasizing the inclusion for students with disability. Furthermore, one of the biggest problems relies on the lack of cooperation of students, understanding that they do not work in groups and that they have many issues with agreeing, showing a lack of social sense. Accordingly, the following research project looks for discovering, understanding and learning the impact of the implementation of the collective thinking in an inclusive EFL environment when having to work taboo topics cooperatively, where students will show how the negotiations and agreement processes will occur, when being immerse in an inclusion thought for all them.