As contribuições da Escola Antônio Francisco Lisboa na educação especial do município de Santa Maria-RS – um estudo de caso

Abstract

This research aims at examining the historical, political and pedagogical process of the Antônio Francisco Lisboa Special School and its influences on the community of Santa Maria, considering it in a context in RS. Have in mind that this school was one of the first institutions of Special Education of RS, established in 1954 and the first one in Santa Maria. Moreover among its particularities, this school had in its coordination, management and presidency the professor Haidée Cadeco Zorzan, founder of the school, during a period of 40 years. Referring to the methodology, we work with Oral History, History of Life and Open Interviews, valuing memories and images among other documental resources. The theoretical reference takes into account the politics of the special education in the last 50 years as well as laws and principles which pervade the process of institutionalization of the special education in Rio Grande do Sul. Finally, getting to the end of this study, it is worth mentioning that this research provided us a new contemplation of the Antônio Francisco Lisboa special school, valuing sources like Haidée C. Zorzan’s personal documents that, for the first time, are being published. It permits that a new view about the Special School in Santa Maria that, until then, there were only manuscripts belonged to the course of Special Education at UFSM.