Inclusão educacional em tempos de pandemia: uma análise a partir da teoria ator-rede

Abstract

This dissertation aims to problematize the Educational Inclusion of public Special Education students and the controversies, mediations and associations brokered during the covid-19 pandemic. For this, we rely on Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory, which proposes the observation of phenomena from a symmetrical perspective between the network's actants (human and non-human), overcoming the anthropocentric view that places the human as the only element capable of acting. The research report will be shared in multipaper format. In the first study, we aim to track and describe the controversies surrounding Inclusive Education in the government of President Jair Bolsonaro during the pandemic period. In the second, we aim to present the contributions of the Actor-Network Theory for the Educational Inclusion of students with disabilities, Autistic Spectrum Disorder and High abilities. In the third, to investigate how the actions and associations between the online social networks of the Accessibility Center of a public university and the university collective affect Educational Inclusion. In this work, we are inspired by the assumptions of the post-humanist paradigm, which argues that we need to go beyond the idea of uniqueness of (human) subjects. This perspective allows us to track existing associations in the link between humans and non-humans, such as technologies, which interact with each other and are defined by the network built during the pandemic period. For data analysis, we relied on three principles outlined by Latour (2019), Generalized Agnosticism, Generalized Symmetry and Free Association. From the first article, we concluded that there was an attempt to breach the legal norms already established in defense of the educational inclusion of Special Education students, and the proposal for a new Special Education policy was a setback for Inclusion. In the second study, we realized that the removal of barriers that impede the participation of students was made possible by the action of objects in association with humans. And in the last article, we found that social networks attract the university's young public and favor the dissemination of actions and information more efficiently, motivating discussions and debates about the accessibility and inclusion of students with disabilities or other educational specificity in the university space. As a result of the research, we produced a video entitled “Educational Inclusion in Higher Education: What is the role of the university”, to be disseminated on online social networks (Instagram and Facebook) of the Accessibility Center of the State University of Feira de Santana (NAU) and on Youtube, because we understand that associations between humans and non-humans act collectively, causing changes in reality.