Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T16:15:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Heloisa de Oliveira Prado Giorgi.pdf: 389262 bytes, checksum: e5da95bb2bd12bd19bb33028bc5a212d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-09-18 / This document analyzes the possibilities and limits of the specialized educational support service in order to build an inclusive school . Currently, when it is mentioned school Inclusion, it is possible to evaluate in the theorist studies and also in the national and international laws, two differ tendencies: whole inclusion and on-going services. The specialized educational support service is included in both proposals but there are different nuances. The research has looked to establish a parallel between the concepts that basis those proposals and the specialized educational support service in the city of São Bernardo. It is about a Case Study of ethnographic kind. The research procedures adopted were the participant observation, document analyzes, forms filled and interviews with itinerant teachers invited. That Study was developed at São Bernardo do Campo municipal schools that have resources room and those teachers are habilitated in the mental deficiency special education. Those teachers work for the first four years (fundamental education) of the São Bernardo municipal schools. It was concluded that the specialized support service in São Bernardo do Campo is offered from the perspective of on-going services. In this case, the students from common classrooms, in general, are able to adapt for what have been offered, and do not require structural curricular changes. Itinerant teachers should contribute in order to help the student adaptation for what have been established. Even in this case, it is possible to consider as possibilities for those teachers, their contribution for the access and permanency of students that were historically excluded from the regular education.(AU) / Este trabalho investiga as possibilidades e os limites do serviço de apoio educacional especializado na construção de uma escola inclusiva. Atualmente, ao se falar em inclusão escolar é possível verificar, tanto nas produções teóricas quanto na legislação nacional e internacional, duas tendências divergentes: inclusão total e continuum de serviços. O serviço de apoio educacional especializado está presente nas duas propostas, porém com nuances diferenciadas. A pesquisa empírica buscou estabelecer um paralelo entre as concepções que embasam essas propostas e o serviço de apoio educacional especializado no município estudado. Trata-se de um estudo de caso do tipo etnográfico, em que foram utilizados como instrumentos de pesquisa: observação participante, análise documental, aplicação de questionários e entrevistas semi-estruturadas com professoras itinerantes. Foram convidadas para contribuir com esse estudo, através da resposta aos questionários e participação nas entrevistas, professoras habilitadas em educação especial/deficiência mental, que atuam em sala de recursos nos quatro primeiros anos do ensino fundamental de uma rede municipal. Verificou-se que o serviço de apoio especializado no município estudado é oferecido a partir da perspectiva de um continuum de serviços. Nesse contexto, os alunos matriculados nas classes comuns, geralmente, são aqueles que conseguem, de alguma forma, adaptar-se ao que está posto, não exigindo mudanças na estrutura curricular. Cabe ao professor itinerante contribuir no ajuste do aluno ao que é estabelecido. Apesar dessa constatação é possível ver como possibilidade para a atuação desse profissional, sua contribuição para a o acesso e permanência de alunos que historicamente foram excluídos do ensino regular. (AU)

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The study examined the opportunities to learn Mathematics that are accorded to secondary school students with visual impairment in Zimbabwe. The study focused on form one and form two students who are completely without sight, but are learning in inclusive settings, together with their Mathematics teachers. The study examined how teachers interacted with the subject matter, how the teachers interacted with the visually impaired students and how these students interacted with partially sighted students in the teaching and learning process. The study adopted the case study approach under the qualitative inquiry. Data was collected using document analysis, lesson observations, personal interviews with teachers and focus group interviews with students who were purposive sampled. The study established that visually impaired students were not accorded adequate opportunities to learn mathematics at secondary level. The reasons for this deficit are (1) visually impaired students learnt the same curriculum as sighted students when they could not access some topics on the syllabus, (2) the teachers were professionally qualified but they lacked the necessary specialist training for teaching students without sight, (3) teachers used the same teaching methods as those used with sighted students, (4) a lot of time was spent on task though not much ground was covered, (5) the schools were not adequately resourced with appropriate teaching and learning materials for use by visually impaired students, culminating in lost opportunities to learn mathematics. The study recommends that appropriately qualified teachers be deployed to teach at schools for the visually impaired, that all secondary teachers learn the basic modules in Special Needs Education during training. The study also recommends for the government to assist the schools for the visually impaired students to import the much needed teaching and learning equipment. The study has provided some knowledge about the learning of mathematics by visually impaired students in Zimbabwe in the areas of lesson delivery, materials provision, and programme adjustments at secondary teacher training colleges and universities. It has also provided curriculum planners with an insight on the prevailing situation with regard to the teaching and learning of mathematics by visually impaired students. This knowledge could be used when formulating future mathematics curriculum and training policies to do with non-sighted students in Zimbabwe and other countries in Africa. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / D. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)