A educação de estudantes público alvo da educação especial em João Pessoa: um olhar acerca da formação docente inicial

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the training of students of the pedagogy course at the Federal University of Paraíba.for the future exercise of teaching in an inclusive perspective. For the quantitative and qualitative research, an online Google Forms form was used as a data collection methodology, applied with 10 students from the UFPB pedagogy course, attending from the 7th period and who opted for the area of special education as an area of deepening. Subsequently, we point out how people with disabilities were seen by society in the past years, in addition to the growing number of students enrolled as belonging to the target audience of special education, as well as the legal frameworks of Brazilian legislation regarding special education and points that provided for the practice of inclusive education. With the research, it was considered that the evaluation of the students, for the most part, was considered satisfactory, however, with some needs for improvement. Consecutive to the analyzed study, the importance of dealing with the initial teacher training of teachers in the area of special education was evidenced, since the advisees of this training will have pedagogical practices to be trained with an inclusive education in mind.