Special Education, Public Policies, Collaborative work

This dissertation has as its object of investigation the Municipal Public Policies of Special Education in the municipalities of the Costa Verde/RJ Region. The main objective of this research is to identify, through the 'Intermunicipal School Inclusion and Educational Webinars', policies of the municipal networks in meeting the specific needs of schooling students targeting special education in the municipalities of Angra dos Reis, Mangaratiba and Paraty, locus of the study; as well as instituting a territorial network of studies, research, exchange of experiences and carrying out collaborative actions; to analyze the regulations that regulate the attendance to Special Education in the Costa Verde / RJ Region and to characterize the organization of the Municipal Education Networks participating in the Program regarding special education. The methodological conception of this research is based on the inseparability between theory and praxis put in the Critical Theory. Theodor Adorno's thinking and commentators on his thinking, supported our analyzes. The methodological instruments and procedures were divided into documental analysis of the municipal and webinar norms with the study subjects, namely: special education coordinator of the Angra dos Reis education department; director of special education at the education department of Mangaratiba and coordinator of special education at the education department of Paraty. In our final research considerations, we identified that the collaborative work between the municipal education networks represents a significant achievement for the education of the region, as it presents possibilities in the political and pedagogical dimensions that collaborate for the elaboration of public policies for serving the target audience. of special education. However, there are still many challenges that hinder the collaborative work between the networks as the coordinators do not remain in the necessary time in the function for the strengthening of relations. We highlight the importance of this and other researches that have as object of study the collaborative work in the process of elaboration of intermunicipal public policies to serve students target audience of the special education modality as guarantees of human formation and affirmation of diversity.