Abstract

PLETSCH, Márcia Denise; BATISTA, Getsemane de Freitas  and  AVILA, Leila Lopes de. Constitution of Special Education in Brazil: contributions by Sarah Couto Cesar and Olívia da Silva Pereira. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2023, vol.22, e159.  Epub Aug 07, 2023. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v22-2023-159.

The institutionalization of Special Education occurred during the military dictatorship regime (1964-1985), with the creation of the National Center for Special Education (Centro Nacional de Educação Especial - CENESP). The objective of this paper is to present and discuss the role of Sarah Couto Cesar and Olívia da Silva Pereira in the constitution of Special Education in Brazil. In methodological terms, the research is bibliographical in dialogue with oral history through interviews with Sarah Couto Cesar, Ilza Maria Ferreira Pinto Autran and Rosana Glat. The research showed that Sarah Couto Cesar and Olívia da Silva Pereira acted and had an important contribution in the political articulation to institutionalize Special Education in the different Brazilian states, as well as in the formation of human resources at the Graduate studies level. The text also problematizes the institutionalization of Special Education and disputes between the public and private sectors on the schooling locus of people with disabilities and the initial and continuing teacher training.

Keywords : History of Special Education; Special Education; CENESP; Sarah Couto Cesar; Olívia da Silva Pereira.

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