O NAPNE e o processo de inclusão no ensino técnico profissionalizante no IFPI campus Teresina Zona Sul

Abstract

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ensures humans the right of being included in society enjoying all goods and services which are essential to full citizenship. This inclusion involves the right to education, whose objective is the development of the potentialities of the subject, focusing on the practice of full citizenship and its qualification for the world of labor. Within the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology, the Care Centers for People with Specific Educational Necessities (NAPNEs in Portuguese) are an institutional space of refence in the caring of people with disabilities and other specific necessities, seeking to contribute with the educational processes of the inclusive type on the perspective of admission, permanence and conclusion of the courses. This study had the main objective of analyzing how NAPNE, in the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piauí (IFPI) Teresina/South campus, contributes with the admission, permanence and conclusion of the Technical Learning Integrated to High School in the perception of students with disabilities assisted by NAPNE. For that purpose, it performed a case study, with exploratory research, literature review and documentary and field research; aside from using semi-structured interviews with different subjects directly related to the center, using a specific guide for each group of subjects. The study provides contributions for the educational field as it discusses about the inclusion of students with disabilities in the education; as well as, in the social field, by bringing information about how the Special Education is operationalized in the Federal Institutes considering the operation of NAPNE, allowing the external community to obtain this information and use it. This study was carried out within the Graduate Program in Professional and Technological Education (ProfEPT), it is connected to the line of research “Organization and Memory of the Pedagogical Spaces in Professional and Technological Education”, which generated an Educational Product, “Inclusive Actions: the NAPNE in IFPI”, a documentary, which was applied and validated in the context of teaching. The product encompasses the participation of different subjects – researchers, professors, technicians and student mentors of NAPNE, active students and alumni with disabilities and relatives of these students. As an educational product, the documentary became relevant for Professional and Technological education for it contributes with the discussions and reflections around the inclusion and diversity issues in the federal institutes. It also retrieves the memory of NAPNE seen as a reference in the caring of students who need specific services for ensuring the educational processes