Inclusive Educational Policies and Teacher Education: Teacher Speech Analysis in Santo André -SP

Amanda Sousa Batista do Nascimento, Celso do Prado Ferraz Carvalho

(University Nove de Julho - UNINOVE, Brazil)

Abstract: This article addresses the theme of Inclusive Education, which is a clipping of the master’s dissertation entitled “The National Policy of Special Education in the Perspective of Inclusive Education: the process of implementation in the Santo André municipal school system (2008–2016)” (NASCIMENTO, 2018). The problem of this research aimed to know how has been, from the perspective of teachers and pedagogical assistants, the process of implementation of this policy in the Municipal Kindergarten and Elementary Schools (EMEIEF). The methodological procedure consisted of a literature review about the implementation of inclusive educational policies, the analysis of official documents on the subject and a set of semi-structured interviews with teachers and pedagogical assistants of the two School Units of the Network. The survey results show that inclusive educational policies at the municipal level have strengthened, although the influence of partisan political changes on municipal administrations continues to alter the directions of inclusive policies.

Key words: inclusive education, teacher training, Santo André Municipal Network.