A study on the establishment of an educational service center specialist: a reconfiguration of special education

• Autor(a) principal: Viegas, Luciane Torezan
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Educação Especial (UFSM)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/educacaoespecial/article/view/15371
• topic: Special education; Call center; Specialized educational services.; Educação especial; Centro de atendimento; Atendimento educacional especializado.

This study aimed to understand the process of reconfiguration of the propositions that link the special education and regular education students with disabilities, considering the contexts, the decision spaces of a municipal school and investment in alternative spaces - call centers - as the possibility of additional support for schooling. This is a qualitative research study that, in terms of methodological action, invested primarily in document analysis and dialogue with social actors involved through semi-structured interviews. These strategies helped in the analysis of special education facing public policies associated with singularities of a context of public health system in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre. We conclude that the reconfiguration of special education that municipal schools have restructured based on whether mandatory dual enrollment as a legal argument that propelled practices in making schooling compulsory for students with disabilities in regular schools, in regular classes. This reconfiguration was to axis transformation of municipal public special school that catered to students with disabilities in places of specialized educational services.