The challenge of inclusive education in a Brazilian School: teachers’ concerns regarding inclusion

Authors

  • Adriane Cenci Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN
  • Daniela Fuhro Vilas Bôas Profícere - Instituto de Desenvolvimento do Saber
  • Magda Floriana Damiani Universidade Federal de Pelotas - UFPel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17648/rsd-v2i2.24

Keywords:

Inclusive education; Interventionist research; Cultural-Historical Activity Theory.

Abstract

This intervention research analyzes the impact of implementation of the Brazilian inclusive education policy on the teachers of a public school. The intervention was based on Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, using the methodology of Change Laboratory. Such methodology is based on the idea of expansive learning, which proposes the collective creation of new solutions to deal with the contradictions faced in an activity system (in this case, the school). Inclusive education has been a challenge to this school and its teachers: most of them were dealing with it for the first time. Ten group sessions were carried out from March to December 2014 and data were collected during such sessions. Three categories emerged from the data in an attempt to explain the teachers’ concerns about inclusion: 1) inclusion as learning, 2) inclusion as fallacy and 3) manifestation of contradictions related to inclusion. Students’ effective learning was the least frequent category. Manifestation of contradictions was the main category, indicating that the proposed inclusive education must advance to improve students’ performance. Such advances could take place through facing the contradictions appointed by the subjects themselves. Under the light of the theoretical framework, it was possible to perceive that the contradictions reveal the tensions involved in the inclusion process and, at the same time, the potential for change they carry in themselves.

Author Biographies

Adriane Cenci, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN

Professora do Departamento de Fundamentos e Políticas da Educação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte.

Doutora em Educação pela Universidade Federal de Pelotas - UFPel (2016). Mestre em Educação pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM (2011). Especialista em Gestão Educacional pela UFSM (2012). Licenciada em Educação Especial pela UFSM (2008).

Daniela Fuhro Vilas Bôas, Profícere - Instituto de Desenvolvimento do Saber

Diretora e professora do Instituto Profícere.

Possui graduação em Oceanologia Biológica pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (1986), mestrado em Oceanografia Biológica pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (1990) e mestrado em Educação pela Universidade Federal de Pelotas (2002).

Magda Floriana Damiani, Universidade Federal de Pelotas - UFPel

Professora da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal de Pelotas.

Graduada em Psicologia pela Universidade Católica de Pelotas (1979). Mestre em Psicologia Educacional (1983) e Doutora em Educação (1998), ambos no Institute of Education da Universidade de Londres/Inglaterra.

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06/10/2016

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CENCI, A.; VILAS BÔAS, D. F.; DAMIANI, M. F. The challenge of inclusive education in a Brazilian School: teachers’ concerns regarding inclusion. Research, Society and Development, [S. l.], v. 2, n. 2, p. 94-106, 2016. DOI: 10.17648/rsd-v2i2.24. Disponível em: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/24. Acesso em: 19 apr. 2024.

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