Concepções de membros do Conselho Municipal de Educação acerca da educação da pessoa com deficiência intelectual

Abstract

This work refers to a qualitative study on collective perceptions of education for people with intellectual disabilities from a representing members group of the City Council of Education (CME) in a city from the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The objective was to investigate relationships between the concepts of education for people with intellectual disabilities and Models of disability, as evidenced in the speeches of members from CME. Through studying history and conception of education is presented the theoretical concept of models of disability. This concept is used to understand the assumptions that the processes of inclusion suffer or have suffered. This research has used as a tool for building data a focus group conducted with five board members. The data were analyzed considering the discursive textual analysis proposed by Moraes and Galiazzi (2007) and conceptual approach of Finkelstein (2011) on models of disability. With the analysis of the corpus was identified the prevalence of two models of disability which emerged as categories for discussions. Models categorized highlight first the Social Model, which presents the current concepts of education for people with ID, and later the Medical Model, which refers to cultural and historical aspects of the present concepts and examples listed. Despite statements arise with positive examples of processes of inclusion, the difficulties aspects were longer under discussion, indicating the need of building new areas of knowledge and actions in this matter. We realize that the concepts of inclusion of students with ID, are still in process of creation, however we find students attending regular schools, does not mean they are actually included in the teaching and learning process provided by the school.