Um estudo de indicadores da representação social de um grupo de professores frente ao processo de inclusão escolar

Abstract

The research search to identify indicators of the Social Representation of a group of twelve teachers, distributed in three different schools, in Santa Maria/RS's city, in 2001. The theoretical referencial repairs the history of the Special Education, it looks for to define Deficiency and handicap, Integration and Inclusion and elements of the Theory of the Social Representation. The used method is glimpsed semi-structured. The picked material was organized in categories and indicators for its posterior analysis. The categories and its indicators are: a) Feelings: fear, grieves, relief, overproteccion; b) Deficiency: diagnosis, imaginary associations, the students' future; c) Inclusion: Previous existences, special Class, partial Inclusion, difficulties; The conclusion points close to for the subjective construction of that group, its difficulties and indications for a possible approach the group for the process of school inclusion.