Diálogos entre o currículo e o planejamento educacional individualizado (PEI) na escolarização de alunos com deficiência intelectual

Abstract

Talking about inclusion implies in a change of attitude in relation to the actual social order, contemplating differences such as the point of reflection about the school and the performance of its roles. It means a physical, pedagogical, organizational, and philosophical restructuration of the school. However this process is far away from the reality faced in the Brazilians schools, specially the public ones. With rare exceptions, our schools are not prepared to guarantee an effective participation and development in the school activities for our students with intellectual disability. Because of this reason and the urgency of a further approximation of the public policies of inclusion with the school reality, the objective of this research is to analyze the elaboration and implementation of the Individualized Educational Planning (IEP) for students with intellectual disability in a school of the municipal educational system of Nova Iguaçu (state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), from its own curriculum. The investigation is inside the research project “The schooling of students with intellectual disability: public policies, cognitive processes, and learning evaluations”, with the financial support of The Observatory Program of Education of CAPES. The qualitative research, based on methodological assumptions of the research-action was adopted as methodological procedure. For this purpose it was realized meetings with teachers to reflect about the implementation of the IEP (PEI) in the educational formation of the students with intellectual disability. Data collection procedures used the participant observation (with registry of field diary), documental analysis (files, reports), and semi structured meetings. As the theoretical referential, it was adopted the historical-cultural perspective of Vigotski. The data obtained showed the complexity and fragility which the process of schooling inclusion of these students has been realized in regular classes, as well as the remoteness and difficulty of a collaborative working possibility with the multifunctional resources teacher. It was also noticed that the traditional practices, which have no relation with the curriculum proposal, keep running in the daily activities of students with intellectual disability, making even harder their learning process and development. Concluding, it is important to emphasize the importance of the IEP (PEI), elaborated during the intervention, as an instrument which can help the inclusion of these students.