A voz dos estudantes com deficiência intelectual: rebatimentos dos tempos de escola na construção identitária

Abstract

In the XXI century, despite the speech of especial education in an inclusion perspective, some processes of stigmatization and segregation are still present practices in brazilian school institutions, especially, when it comes to students with Intellectual Disability (ID). In an inclusive aproach, such students inserted in regular schools require modifications, some didactic-pedagogical and attitudinal rearrangements. Thus, the proposed research in this dissertation aims to understand from the life and school histories of young people with ID, how their school trajectories had reverberated in the self-image they establish of themselves, Considering the relationship between the stigma interface, identity and ID. The study aimed to analyze how the school experiences of young people with ID interfere in the formation of their identity. Three young women diagnosed with ID and their respective aunts / mothers had the participation in the study. The applied methodology follows a qualitative approach, guided by the method of oral history of life. In the data construction, the recurrent interview was used, which allowed the apprehension of meanings attributed to the school life by the subjects of the research. We organized the categories as follows: a) school and life trajectories; b) conceptions and experiences of socialization in the regular school; c) schooling processes in regular school. The data analysis allowed us to understand the types of experiences with the stigma which students with ID are experiencing in the school context, considerably broadening the knowledge about the way the process of including people with ID has been done, its advances and its limitations with regards to the guarantee of socialization and schooling in the regular school. We verified, with the study, that the schooling of ID people inserted in regular classes, in the last years elementary and high school, is still characterized by the precariousness of inclusion processes, through the non-acceptance and the establishment of a non-reciprocal mixed contacts, reinforcing the stigma of the non-learning and development of students with ID, as well as the belief that regular school is not their place. At last, one of the lessons (provided by this) dissertation is the need to create a less restrictive school environment for ID students, allowing the construction of identities without limiting and conditioning them to a supposed label, considering the multiplicity of attributes and potentialities that must be effectively developed in the course of a school life, creating new meanings about what is intellectual disability in a school routine.