Proposals for an inclusive school in the special education teachers’ view: some problematizations

Abstract

What are the necessary actions to implement a truly inclusive school, as proposed in the National Policy for Special Education in the Perspective of Inclusive Education (Política Nacional de Educação Especial na Perspectiva da Educação Inclusiva - Brasil. MEC 2008)? Through this inquiry, this article presents the findings of a research involving special education teachers of four municipalities of Rio Grande do Sul who point out actions needed to create a new school: an inclusive school. This research, that follows a quanti-qualitative approach (Marconi; Lakatos, 2009), through the use of a Google Forms questionnaire, aims to uncover the formative paths and characteristics of these teachers’ instructing environments. Based on the likes of Garcia (2013, 2014), Kassar (2014), Michels (2011), and Correia (2010), this paper presents some of the data collected in the research and problematizes the proposals of special education teachers to turn schools into effectively inclusive spaces. As a result of this study, it was observed that most of the participants believe in the processes of inclusion implemented by the schools in which they are placed; however, they flag the importance of implementing initiatives, from different actors in the school education, so that an inclusive school proposal can be effectively realized.