A formação inicial de professores para a inclusão escolar de alunos com deficiência em Moçambique

Abstract

This work aims on educational polices issues on teachers´ education formation, also focuses on the teacher´s education current institution centers, its curricular proposals and specific discipline available by taking into account the service enabled for disabled students or those with special intellectual needs. The main issue on this research is based on the investigation about the reconceptualization level on curricular proposals focused on disabled student s integration in regular school and, on teacher education institutions in Mozambique related to domestic polices and into this subject, take into account recommended worldwide organizations. Such research has also as a general objective to analyze how do the teachers education formation polices are being embodied by different institutions, based on the service provided to disabled students in the educational system in Mozambique. As a procedure on the collection and data treatment, it has been prioritized the document analyses on educational polices, academic organizations, curricular organizations from distinct courses taken in the six institutions in different educational teaching levels and finally, interviews taking place with the coordinators of teachers trainings. The data analysis is mainly based on four basic sources: 1) national documentation on educational polices; 2) documentation from teacher´s educational institutions; 3) documentation from curricular disciplines such as discipline programs and its forecasts; and 4) interviews with coordinators from the educational course having its content on services rendered to disabled students in each one of the six different levels of education, based on Bernstein (1985 e 1988) and Gimeno Sacristán (2000) contributions, when it comes to reconceptualization, organization and assessments introduced in distinct educational system levels, especially in teacher´s educational institutions located in Mozambique. The main findings demonstrate the centralized curricular proposal in Institutos de Formação de Professores (IFPs) and it didn´t guarantee action sameness, neither incorporation on the main national education polices for everybody, aiming in foreseeing an inclusive education that reflects through its reduction a subtype of general discipline. Regarding university degree, it has been verified the same process on reduction basis. Although, it is possible to certify that, next to the reduced perspective and traditional one, when it comes to disabled or intellectual students education it has been discovered some candidate initiatives still not yet completely formed but on the incorporation of principles and practices for inclusive education