Programa de Colaboração Docente na Educação Infantil: a sala de recursos como mediador de desenvolvimento profissional para inclusão

Abstract

The special education services for early childhood education suffered a discontinuity in the political model of school inclusion. Only in 2013, with the compulsory enrollment of children of 4 years, that the resource rooms begin to attend this age group. In order to understand the ways of attendance for school inclusion that are possible in the context of early childhood education, we asked: what changes a proposal of collaborative work between specialist and generalist teacher corroborate the development of inclusive pedagogical practices in Early Childhood Education? With this, we draw reflections on the professional development of teachers and collaborative work as a strategy of continuing education, understanding the importance of the resource center professional in early childhood education institutions and their formative role in educational everyday. Based on this framework, the objective of this study was to plan, execute and evaluate a process of collaboration between resource center teacher and child education teachers to construct pedagogical practices for children with autism. The research was carried out in a Child Development Space in the city of Rio de Janeiro with three teachers, being: two teachers of Infant Education and one teacher of resource room. We used the assumptions of the action research, which was organized in three phases. In the exploratory phase we produced initial data for the research with conversations, interviews and questionnaires. In the mediation phase, together with the resource room teacher, we constructed the Advisory Form for School Inclusion and applied the steps of the collaboration program. The program consisted of the observation of the teaching practice, followed by the dialogue of the resource-room teacher with researcher and, finally, in the conversation between pairs with the teachers. In the evaluation phase we used questionnaires and individual and collective interview, trying to understand the effects of the program from the optics of the research subjects. The data produced were treated differently, according to each instrument. The questionnaires were systematized by categories present in them. The field records were previously organized, then submitted to thematic analysis. The verbal data were transcribed and followed for thematic and / or narrative analysis. The results show that the professional development courses of the resource room teacher have constituted the knowledge that led to the performance in the resource room at a kindergarten and may have contributed to the construction of partnership and practice together with the Teachers of Early Childhood Education . The collaboration program consisted of joint changes that promoted the adaptation to the reality of the field of research. The program of collaborative practices enabled a third space, since the participants acted in favor of a process of joint reflection on the practice, in which the advice sheet for School Inclusion triggered other perceptions about the pedagogical doing, for providing negotiations and reflections on the daily life which involved curricular tensions, space-time organizations and shared work. We realized that the proposal of collaboration allowed both changes in the look and made possible negotiations about the practice. Situation that favored the amplification of feedback and professional orientation on teaching performance