EDUCAÇÃO DOS ALUNOS COM NECESSIDADES EDUCACIONAIS ESPECIAIS NAS ESCOLAS PÚBLICAS MUNICIPAIS DE 1ª FASE DO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL DE ANÁPOLIS-GO: INCLUSÃO OU EXCLUSÃO?

Abstract

The object of this research was the education of students having special needs in regular schools in Anápolis-GO, and mainly in elementary education at public city schools. The objective is to obtain information and verify if the public policy for education gives conditions for inclusion or if the students who have special educational needs are enrolled and excluded inside their own schools or classrooms. This research was tied to political aspects, and also administrative, technical as well as pedagocical and to the formation of professionals. Having as its basis the dialectical historical materialism, we analysed the following themes: education, schools, State and capitalist societies, neoliberal public policy. The education for students with special needs in the regular school, certainly needs the support of the facts mentioned before. In order to analyse this sort of education it was chosen, besides the bibliographical research, also campus research, using obervation, questionnaires and interviews, observing a qualitative approach. This work is theoretically supported by the contribution of Poulantzas (2000), Enguita (1989-93), Rodrigues (2006), Mittler (2005), LDB 9394/96, Salamanca Declaration (1994), among others. It is considered, in this research, that public policy, when related to special education, follows the logic of foreseeing without providing. There is a lack of means, which prevents the accomplishment of special education from the principles of an education of quality. The education of students with special needs in the regular schools requires the socialization of these students. Teachers in general consider themselves not prepared to work with students having special needs. Mostly, there is a shared opinion, by teachers and fathers of those who have special educational needs, when conceptualizing and discussing the fundamental objectives in the special/inclusive education.