Percepções de educadores quanto a inclusao e integracao de crianças e jovens com necessidades especiais

by Carmo Neto, Honorio do

This study focus on understanding the way tecchers and educationaltechnicians realize and represent the issue of including and integrating childrenand adolescents with special needs in ordinary classes in state public schools.It analyzes concepts of people with special needs and the meaning ofthis concepts concerning individuals, the concepts of inclusion and integration,the matter of the teachers and their qualities and specialization for dealing withthis kind of children or adolescent and the educationalist perception about thewhole issue.There have been applied questionnaires with both dissertative anddirected responses to professionals involved in several segments within theeducational system. ?There were Teaching Director, Pedagogic TechnicialAssistants, School Principals, Pedagogical Coordinators and teachers, thelatters both from special and regular schools?. This questionnaires versed onincluding and integrating children and adolescents with special needs in publicschools.The analyses of the responses showed difficulties on the structuralizationof new representation concerning students with special needs but it also roseperceptions that demonstrate receptivity and overture for this matter. Thefeelings are ambiguous and the rationalizations, very non objetctive. Theefective inclusion path needs going through the changing of this representationsso projects and works could be developed that way