Conceptions of Special Education Managers about intersectionality in local inclusive education policies
People with disabilities, Intersectionality, Special Education, educational inclusion, Documentary Method.
This thesis aims to analyze the educational inclusion policies of students with disabilities, considering intersectionality, based on the conception of the Special Education managers of the cities that are part of the Permanent Forum of Special Education from the Perspective of Inclusive Education in Baixada and Sul Fluminense/ RJ. The assumptions of Qualitative Research were used, with intersectionality as a theoretical-methodological option. For the production and interpretation of data, the documentary method by Ralf Bohnsack (2020) was used. The investigation had as its locus four cities participating in the Permanent Forum on Special Education from the perspective of Inclusive Education in Baixada Fluminense/RJ, namely: Mesquita, Nova Iguaçu, Paty do Alferes and Seropédica. The investigation is part of the interinstitutional project: “Intersectoral research and actions between education and health to promote schooling and development of children with congenital Zika virus syndrome in Baixada Fluminense”, which is funded by FAPERJ. Considering that there is a worsening in the structures of inequality and exclusion for individuals with disabilities, taking into account markers of gender, race and poverty, the results indicate that the search for the principle of the Human Right to equality promotes a set of legal actions in the policies of inclusive education. The Special Education Managers of the cities surveyed have concepts regarding the provision of services to students with disabilities in accordance with legal assumptions; They are aware of the specificities of the Special Education audience and the implications that gender, race and poverty markers generate in the deepening of inequalities, amplifying them in relation to students without disabilities. Action on local educational inclusion policies is designed in a fragmented manner, as are national policies. The historic movement of partnerships between Special Education and other bodies has found in intersectorality a possible way to address the intersectional demands of students with disabilities.