A literatura como ferramenta inclusiva em sala de aula: a perspectiva infantil acerca de alunos com TEA

Abstract

This dissertation has as object of study the child’s perspective about what is the ASD - Autism Spectrum Disorder, what they understand about the disorder and how they deal with this theme in the classroom. The research methodology is the action research with empirical basis, in which a discussion with the students on the subject is conducted through literature, with the book "Gustavo and the golden bubble", product of this dissertation, in order that through the tool of history, of the wonderful, the playful, be awakened questions about ASD, giving light to students to reflect and debate. The theoretical basis used is the theory of Henri Wallon, who talks about the issue of the global individual, with the affective, cognitive and motor dimensions as constituent parts of the individual and that go together. In addition, there is another Wallonian question, which is the importance of the group for the individual, applying it to the ASD individual. The cut used was a private school in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro, in the first segment of Elementary School, where the research was conducted in six stages, and it was found, through the productions in a literary workshop, that students have reached multiple layers of understanding and that integrating is good, and that embracing everyone is possible, regardless of their specificities, after all, everybody has differences between them.