Formação de professores para a educação inclusiva de alunos surdos e autistas: um projeto de intervenção

Abstract

The present research broaches a Special Education under the perspective of Inclusive Education, as well as the teachers’ everyday confrontations in classrooms of public regular schools including the lack of specific formation on the subject. Thus, we present the data of a qualitative research-action that evaluated the limits and contributions of a continuing education course offered to Portuguese teachers, focused on teaching practice of deaf and autistic students inserted in the regular school. Interests us to know the extent to which teacher formation can be identified as a possible solution to improve the process of educational inclusion of the deaf and autistic, as well as measuring the extent of this contribution. We also aim a) to develop and offer a continuing education presential course about educational inclusion for eight Elementary School Portuguese teachers of two public schools of Montes Claros (MG), with a duration of 30 hours; b) to do theoretical considerations capable of substantiating what constitutes inclusive education, as well as who are the autistic and deaf people and c) to analyze the Portuguese teacher’s speech before, during and after the course, sizing the image they construct from the formation. The data collection was performed through the application of two questionnaires (one of initial poll, before the course, another of final poll, after the course), accompanied by records of a research diary and activities carried out by participants during the course. The results indicate that the teachers overvalue the formation, placing in it the solution of all issues involving inclusion. On the other hand, we also conclude that the course offered contributes more effectively for the awakening of consciousness, the empowerment of the subjects, the security and the proximity between educator and educating than to the instantaneous change of pedagogical practice, that will probably happen over time.