INCLUSIVE PRACTICES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: Perceptions and translations of the actors involved in the Teaching Network of Paulista-PE
This research project starts from a place of empowerment, struggle and effective participation in the construction and implementation of public policies experienced in teaching practices and management and which believes that it is possible to intervene in the social context in which we live and transform it through inclusive education. As a general objective, we intend to analyze the performance of the inclusion policy carried out in the municipal schools of Paulista - PE, in the light of the perceptions and translations of the actors involved, in the perspective that these interpretations can contribute to the pedagogical practices aimed at the inclusion with quality of children with disabilities in Early Childhood Education. The theoretical framework is based on Social Studies of Childhood, with a focus on Sociology of Childhood; in Special Education, as Transversal Modality to all stages and modalities of Basic Education, in the understanding of the inclusive perspective; in Early Childhood Education, as the first stage of Basic Education; and, in Policy Enactment, which indicates that policies are interpreted and materialized in different ways by the subjects who work in schools and thereby exterminate the existing binary between policy and practice, making this also our methodological reference. To carry out this qualitative research, we chose the action-research methodology, due to the author's participation as a subject who has a place of speech and the interaction of other actors in the production of knowledge about the topic to be researched. Regarding the empirical field work, we intend to use the focus group technique with teachers from Specialized Educational Assistance (AEE), pre-school teachers, school managers and family members of students with disabilities, enrolled in Pre-school Education, in order to collect impressions, perceptions and conceptions about the inclusive educational policy instituted in the education network. The meetings will be recorded for later analysis and presentation of the results. It is intended that this direct participation of the subjects involved can infer directly in the construction of new policies and contribute to their materialization, with a focus on the inclusion of students with disabilities in Early Childhood education in the selected Network and in other Networks.