Sentidos e significados constituídos pelo professor de educação infantil acerca da educação inclusiva

Abstract

The goal of this research was to investigate the senses, and the meanings, elaborated by a teacher working at the first level of Basic Schooling about early-childhood education and Inclusive Education. Socio Historical Psychology constituted the theoretical and methodological framework of this study. In order to collect/product the data, it was employed a semi-structured interview. This material, the empirical basis of the study, was transcribed and submitted for analysis purposes to the procedures suggested by Aguiar and Ozella (2006). The results showed that in relation to Inclusive Education in Early-Childhood Education: a) the conditions to avoid pedagogic practices focused on the child s limitations and difficulties only exist to the extent that there is a genuine involvement of the teachers with their students, reassuring that the commitment to the teaching and learning process is of central relevance; b) inclusive education are also based on personal dimensions, as a disposition to listen to the school community (students, parents, staff) in order to clarify doubts and to divulge, if necessary, new forms of interaction, able to promote the needs of each student; c) the collective discussion of theoretical ideas and effective practices must be incorporated into the school routine as a way of socializing problems and finding solutions for them. If what was written here can encourage political pressures and incentive a search for truly comprehensive inclusive practices for dealing with diversity promoting (for all pupils) more developed ways of feeling, thinking and acting, it was worth doing it