Educação inclusiva: desafios, possibilidades e enfrentamentos na prática de gestão escolar

Abstract

This study highlights the theme inclusive education, conceived like human rights and that has on its horizon the guarantee of all students’ learning. That theme is relevant once it’s a worldwide concern that has promoted the search for guarantee of an education of quality that favors all the students’ development. This study aimed, in a general way, to analyze the challenges, the existing possibilities and the confrontations needed regarding the inclusive education policy and the school management practice concerning the guarantee of the right to learn. The fundamentals that subsidized the research considers international agreements, national legislation, the national education policy and the contribution of several authors that study that theme. They highlight the education ruled as the right of all, pointing that the school must resize its organization and improve its practices to recognize the differences and welcome diversity. The research has a qualitative approach and focus group instrument and narrative diary. To analyze the data, the Content Analysis technique was chosen. The research was carried out in three schools of the Jesuit Education Network. The analysis made it possible to verify the management team of the schools pointed a conception on inclusive education that gets closer to the concept at present when it makes explicit that inclusive education is the guarantee of education for all students, irrespective of their conditions. Although they have mentioned in their practice facts related only to the students with special educational needs, the study also indicates the existing challenge and the possibilities for an inclusive education as well as the confrontations needed for the improvement of the management practices concerning the inclusive education. A higher prevalence can be noticed in the indispensable need of investment in the continuing education of educators emphasizing the teachers and the management team regarding the assumptions and practices related to inclusion aiming at the guarantee of the students’ learning conditions highlighting those with special educational needs.