A inclusão da pessoa com deficiência no ambiente prisional: novos desafios, novas possibilidades

Abstract

The article entitled THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS TO INCLUDE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN THE PRISON ENVIRONMENT: New challenges, new possibilities, seeks to discuss how to train teachers to include people with visual, intellectual and physical disabilities in prisons. This research is being carried out by the research group Inclusive Education Program (PROGEI), of the Universidade do Estado Bahia (UNEB), which aims to disseminate Inclusive Education in the perspective of the integral formation of citizens with disabilities. In order to do so, it focuses on the training of the teacher as a necessity that must be continued in its professional trajectory in order to reduce the difficulties listed by those who work in Inclusive Education. Therefore, this study has as an inquiry: How does the formation of teachers for special education in an inclusive perspective considering the prison environment of the George Fragoso Modesto College? Based on this question the following objective was formulated: To understand how the teachers of the George Fragoso Modesto School perceive the subject with disability. In order to do so, three specific objectives were conceived: Describe the epistemological and historical aspects of prison education in Brazil; Discuss the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the EJA and its interface with prison education; To analyze the perception of the teachers of the George Fragoso Modesto School regarding the disabled person. This qualitative research is structured through the phenomenological trajectory that is constituted by the Phenomenological Description, Reduction and Understanding moments with the interpretation of the results. Preliminarily the results obtained through Coordination meetings of teachers are that they feel unprepared to act in classrooms with the presence of students with disabilities justifying that the topic was never part of their academic training