Resumen

MONTEIRO, Ana Paula Húngaro  y  MANZINI, Eduardo José. Mudanças nas concepções do professor do ensino fundamental em relação à inclusão após a entrada de alunos com deficiência em sua classe. Rev. bras. educ. espec. [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.01, pp.35-52. ISSN 1413-6538.

Teachers' conceptions can determine social attitudes in relation to the inclusion of disabled students in the classroom. Within this theme, one might ask: Do regular school teachers' conceptions of inclusion change during the school term after the admission of disabled students in the classroom? Thus, this study aimed to identify the existence of changes in regular education teachers' conceptions in relation to inclusion. Five regular school teachers who had at least one disabled student in the classroom, in three schools in the interior of the state of São Paulo, participated in the study. The data were collected throughout one school year using three procedures: non-structured interviews; follow-up information collected every two months in a content notebook and semi-structured interviews, at the end of the year. The data were treated by the enunciation analysis technique. From this analysis, classes and subclasses were established and evaluated by judges to verify the analysis' conformity. The results showed changes in conceptions in the subclasses: expectation regarding the disabled student's inclusion in regular school, experience regarding inclusion, student's profile to be registered in the regular school; learning pace of the disabled student in the regular classroom, learning assessment of the disabled student, difficulties in dealing with diversity, difficulty in dealing with discipline/behavior of the disabled student and difficulty in teaching the disabled student. It was concluded that the admission of disabled students in the regular school in itself did not guarantee changes in the teachers' conceptions.

Palabras clave : Conception; Educational Inclusion; Special Education.