Abstract
The text aims to analyze the schooling of people with disabilities in Brazil, considering the period 2008-2018 as a priority and based on a public policy that assumes school inclusion as a guideline for action in the different spaces of educational management. The National Policy on Special Education in the Perspective of Inclusive Education of 2008 is understood as part of a historical moment that brings together Brazilian initiatives and guidelines with international propositions that announce a resignification of the concept of disability – affirmation of the social perspective –, as indicated by a new institutional design to guarantee the right to education. Who are the social actors with a relevant role in this process? What are the main achievements and main challenges? How to analyze the possibilities of reconfiguration in terms of pedagogical instruments and educational spaces? Such questions are part of the qualitative study performed based on documentary analysis, which considers the normative plan and the review of specialized literature. The analysis indicates that there was increase of enrollment of students with disabilities in ordinary education, besides the approval of great number of normative instruments on the subject. There was also the establishment of programs aimed at various forms of specialized support, showing a locus shift focused on these students’ schooling, prioritizing the ordinary education. Nevertheless, there are coexisting trends that reaffirm and contradict the perspective proposed by the guidelines analyzed, especially when considering the qualitative dimensions of the formative processes.
Special Education; Public policies; School inclusion; Person with disability
Source: School Census data (