ABSTRACT:
This paper aims to discuss succinctly the "places" of master's theses and doctoral dissertations in Special Education in Brazil. It is sought to unveil its emergence and consolidation as an object of research within the Graduate Programs in Education (GPEs). Methodologically, the realization of this balance required the statistical update and the collection of general information (bibliographical data and summaries) about the theses and dissertations under analysis. This information has been organized and systematized into two databases, namely: 1) Pro-Identi; and 2) Caracter. The main results indicate that in the period from 1971 to 2016, 2,864 master's theses and 711 doctoral dissertations were defended, making a total of 3,575 defenses in Special Education, within the framework of the Brazilian GPEs. These researches were developed in 134 programs, with emphasis on the Graduate Program in Special Education of the Federal University of São Carlos, and ten other GPEs that together concentrate 49.3% of the production in the field. When consubstantiating the authors consulted and the survey made, it was possible to identify and characterize three periods of this research in the country, namely: Pioneerism, Expansion and Consolidation. Finally, synthetically, it is reasonable to consider that 45 years after the defense of the first master's thesis in Special Education in Brazil, research on this subject is consolidated in the country.
KEYWORDS:
Special Education; Inclusive Education; Knowledge production; Theses and dissertations; Graduate studies
Source: Elaborated by the author.
Source: Elaborated by the author.
Source: Elaborated by the author.
Source: Elaborated by the author.