A gestão educacional diante dos desafios da inclusão escolar

Abstract

This work investigates issues that demonstrate the new and necessary directions of our Education, investigates the actions and strategies of school management in the inclusion process and uses documents and laws regarding school management and inclusion. The inclusion of students with special needs has come to be seen as the best way to democratize educational opportunities. This is an exploratory qualitative research carried out through field study, documentary research and the use of a questionnaire applied to two managers of a school in the municipal network of Santa Maria to collect information. The main focus of this research was to investigate how school management participates in implementing an Inclusive School and used a questionnaire, documents and laws regarding school management and inclusion. The application of the questionnaire made it possible to verify the research problem, which is to understand the challenges of school management in the School Inclusion of the Special Education public, to contribute to the organizational structure of schools, aiming at the Inclusive Education proposal and to know how school management can participate in actions in favor of inclusion. It was possible to perceive the importance of the role of managers in the inclusion of students with school needs, as it is up to school management to guarantee accessibility to these students, ensuring better conditions for students through democratic management. This research was extremely important to understand that school management is one of the determining elements for the performance of a school, linked to democratization and participation that leads to awareness of citizenship as a practice of social transformation, enabling the construction of a school/society fairer and more democratic.