Inclusão de pessoas com deficiência no ensino médio do Município de Cruz das Almas - Ba: concepções de gestores e professores

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than a billion people worldwide live with some kind of disability. Historically, people with disabilities occupied different roles in the humanity’s history. However, in recent years people with disabilities have been conquering the assurance their rights in various sectors of society. Among then there is the right to education by the Special Education that wants to promote the inclusion of students with disabilities in regular schools. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the Federal Constitution (1988), the Statute of Children and Adolescents (1990), the Salamanca Statement (1994) and the LDB (1996) ensure education as a right for all, without distinction. Thus, this study is justified as to identify the concepts of the various segments of the school community about the process of Inclusive Education presents itself as one of the ways for a possible intervention in the school context. It constitutes objective of this study to investigate the concept of managers and biology teachers on the organization of the public school to work for the inclusion of people with disabilities. The participants were 4 directors and 8 biology teachers, linked to public schools in Cruz das Almas, Bahia. The data has been collected through questionnaires among the participating subjects. The results obtained from this investigation bring a diagnosis on the reality of the operation of the paradigm of inclusion in the institutions studied, enabling parameters for better assessment by the school community, the process of inclusive education experienced for it.