Inclusão escolar: um olhar para a diversidade : as representações sociais de professores do ensino fundamental da rede pública sobre o aluno com necessidades educacionais especiais

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The Inclusive Education is a process under development, and has been subject of much discussion and studies. Despite off the innumerous discussions, students with special educational needs still suffer stigmatization, which can also arise from their teachers, related to previous ideas, from their professional experiences and/or from their social representations. This study tried to analyze the social representations of teachers working at inclusive schools in the public system, regarding students with special educational needs, aiming to identify the meaning of these representations in the inclusion process. The study was held with thirty-eight elementary education teachers that assist students with special educational needs at public schools, in the city of Taguatinga/DF. The procedures and instruments used to investigate the object of study happened in two stages. The first stage corresponded to the application of a questionnaire, consisting of 20 objective and semi-subjective queries. It was applied to the thirty-eight teachers, in an effort to identify the images, ideas and social representations about students with special educational needs. Data obtained in this phase are presented in graphs and tables and the discussion of the results was made by the content analysis. At the second stage, periodic interviews were performed with seven teachers who participated in the first stage. Data in this phase enabled the deepening of the content analysis of the sayings, allowing identify the meanings of the social representations about the studys object. This research is characterized by its qualitative and exploratory nature, based on the theoretical support of social representations. The value of appealing to this Theory of social representations is noticed when acknowledging the teachers impressions about special students, searching a larger understanding of their feelings, difficulties, anxieties and representations that may facilitate or interfere in his professional performance acting in the inclusion perspective. Based on the results, it was evidenced that the social representations about the object of study are presented in diverse ways and reveal that there is a need of redimensioning the pedagogical, personal and structural actions. It was identified that social representations of teachers who participated from this research are connected to beliefs, convictions and to the tradition that along the history and the educational culture is amplifying the image of the students with special educational needs associated to the conception of deficiency and of out of pattern students.

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alunos com necessidades educacionais especiais (anees) educação inclusiva students with special educational needs (ssens) representações sociais professor teacher social representations educacao inclusive education

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