Inclusão escolar na educação básica : a trajetória de uma escola da Rede Sinodal de Educação da IECLB

Abstract

An analysis of mainstreaming in a grade school considering the experience of a school of the Sinodal Network of Education of the IECLB. This dissertation involves research supported on curricular, psycopedagogical and theological basis; it is a case-study with data collected through biographical, documental and social (interviews) resources. The target population includes administrative staff members, teachers, parents, and students with special educational needs from Instituição Evangélica de Novo Hamburgo (IENH) and with coordinators of two sections of the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB). The first chapter talks about mainstreaming in schools considering the history of society and education in Brazil in the past twenty years. It presents principles and actions for Inclusive Education, aiming at the best understanding of this issue, still somehow unknown in society nowadays. At last, it highlights public politics for Inclusive Education found in the Brazilian legislation and in the actions developed by the Education Ministry through the Department of Especial Education. The second chapter presents the educational experience of IENH, which is part of the Sinodal Network of Education, and targets the education of children and youngsters and where there is the inclusion of students with special educational needs in regular classes. It looks at IENH s Political-Pedagogical Project and in it the Institution s Planning for Inclusive Education. In this construction, it focuses the inclusive curriculum which is now being practiced at IENH. The administrative staffs, the teachers, the students with special educational needs and also their families, are the investigative target through the interviews. The last chapter refers to the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession using remarkable facts of its history in Brazil and investigates two of its sections: the Coordination of Deaconia through the work developed with people who carry some deficiency and the Sinodal Network of Education through the actions developed in its schools, especially concerning in reference to the inclusion of students with special educational needs.