The experience of teacher about the process of inclusion

a study of perspective of Historical-Cultural Psychology

Abstract

Objectives: Examine the perceptions and experiences of teachers about their role in the inclusion of student with special educational needs. Another aspect that was intended to investigate regards to the feelings experienced by teachers and student with special educational needs, which often result in failure: identities in crisis, suffering caused by shame and /or guilt, the feeling of incompetence, etc. For this, we used the Historical-Cultural Psychology, using the assumptions of its main representative, Vygotsky, and authors such as Rey, Souza, among others from the same basis. Methods: Our investigation has been given to teachers at a public school in Campinas-SP, which were realized semi-structured interviews and observations in several areas of the school. Results and Conclusion: Results indicate that teachers have perceptions that are opposed to the assumptions of inclusive education, as a vision of students with disabilities as incapable, in need of medical treatment through medication, placing in students the origin and solution of problems lived at the classroom. Thus, we realized that teachers are also affected with this issue, because the fact of not knowing how to work with the student causes malaise that leads them to search outside their classroom and teaching practice for causes for the failure they experience.