Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Wanessa Moreira de  and  DELOU, Cristina Maria Carvalho. Curriculum practices for inclusive education: curriculum accessibility, curriculum adaptation and specific terminality. Rev. Educ. Espec. [online]. 2023, vol.36, e71896.  Epub July 19, 2024. ISSN 1984-686X.  https://doi.org/10.5902/1984686x71896.

Curriculum practices aiming the inclusion of the target public of Special Education have been under discussion in Brazil. Therefore this study investigates terms/concepts regarding curriculum practices that have been adopted within the scope of Inclusive Education along with some consequences for teaching and learning processes of the target public of Special Education. It is a qualitative research, through a bibliographic study (narrative literature review) based on the critical sociology of the curriculum. It demonstrates that strategies foreseen under Brazilian legislation such as curriculum adaptations and specific terminality have taken different practical connotations so as to be seen as excluding resources to be overcome defining proposals aligned more closely to the idea of ​​curriculum accessibility. However such proposals are not at all new and balanced. Thus, it is clear that inclusive curriculum policies require more objectivity to reduce the possibilities of misinterpretation and errors on practical application. In this regard, it would be more appropriate to inform and complement current curriculum policies/guidelines instead of trying to overcome them with the adoption of new terms/concepts.

Keywords : Curriculum; Special Education; Inclusion.

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