Debates for a (de)construction of special education policy in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Kassar, Mônica de Carvalho Magalhães
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Educação Especial (UFSM)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/educacaoespecial/article/view/71383
• topic: Democratic Participation; Educational Politics; Special Education; Participación Democrática; Política Educativa; Educación Especial; Participação Democrática; Política Educacional; Educação Especial

In 2008, the National Policy on Special Education from the Perspective of Inclusive Education was published, providing guidelines for the organization of special education in Brazilian education. In November 2018, an online “public consultation” was published by the Ministry of Education publicizing the revision of this policy. Considering the moment of conservative advances around constitutionally constituted rights in the field of Education, this article aims to highlight and analyze arguments presented by representatives of civil society and the government, for and against the revision, in a Seminar organized by the Chamber of the Deputies on this topic, at the beginning of the 2018 public consultation. The work was built using two types of documentation: The Seminar record, prepared by the Department of Shorthand, Review and Writing - DETAQ, of the Chamber of Deputies; and news published about this process on the WEB pages of the entities involved in the Seminar. The arguments chosen for the analysis were: the need for democratic debate; research data; the position of the United Nations; the use of the slogan “nothing about us without us”; and religious arguments. The analysis of the Seminar and its context indicate: the existence of disputes and the tendency to disregard mechanisms of collective participation, adoption of a conservative bias in political propositions and disregard of the public school as a republican institution.