Abstract

ROSS, Paulo Ricardo. State and education: liberalism implications over the building of special and inclusive education. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2002, n.19, pp.217-227. ISSN 0104-4060.

This artiicle persues to understand the relationbship between State, education and people with special needs, as well as proposes of educational politics since the nineties and quality in education. Here, these people are been taking as historical subjects, considering their possibilities and their limits to intervene in public politics in Brazil and Latin America. Analysis of new exclusions ways produced by neoliberal economicism is considered essencial condition to understand the place, position, value, rights of people with history of disability and, at the same time, the principies and implicit and explicit finalities in educational and social politics. The quality of education and new functions to be required to Special Education must be thought into this context of reformulation of State role, productive restruturation, economical, financial and cultural globalization. In short, this work situates the Special Education and the people with special needs socially, economically and politically, considering the new roles that they are being required to execute in the present context of productive reformulation of flexibilization and weakening institutions and cutting of public benefits.

Keywords : Inclusive Education; Special Needs; Liberal State.

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