Neuropsicologia e Educação

Admite-se que o desenvolvimento do cérebro e da vida psiquica constituem um fenômeno, ao mesmo tempo, biológico e social. Atualmente, o estudo deste processo envolve a participação da Neuropsicologia e da Educação. Embora ambas as áreas do conhecimento sejam distintas na formulação dos princípios e métodos de investigação, elas possuem, como ponto comum, a implementação das funções cognitivas. Neste trabalho, discutimos as relações entre ambas e procuramos analisar algumas implicações neuropsicológicas, particularmente, para a Educação especial.

História da educação brasileira: novas fontes e novos enfoques de análise

O intuito do presente texto é analisar as possibilidades abertas pela análise histórica para a renovação dos problemas, métodos e fontes da História da Educação brasileira. Para tanto, destaca-se a influência dos pensadores ligados ao movimento de renovação da educação conhecidos como escolanovistas na produção sobre educação no Brasil e as contribuições para a História da Educação advindas de pesquisadores abertos ao diálogo com as novas correntes historiográficas.

Antropologia e os dilemas da educação

Tentativa de avaliação da contribuição que o estudo de outras culturas pode oferecer para se repensar a Educação na sociedade moderna, a Educação no Brasil de hoje. Revisão crítica da obra de Margaret Mead, como representando a maior contribuição da Antropologia americana voltada para o estudo das relações entre Educação, Cultura e Personalidade. Os dilemas da Educação na África, a partir de um conto de Munanairi. Algumas considerações sobre os pontos fundamentais a serem repensados e o significado de tradição.

A avaliação da aprendizagem escolar de estudantes com deficiência intelectual

Pós-graduação em Educação - FCT

Os cursos de Pedagogia da Universidade Estadual Paulista e a Educação Inclusiva

Inclusive education is seen as quality education that should be provided by the educational system for all children, young people and adults. In order to put such a proposal into effect, qualified personnel are needed who are equipped to face such a challenge. This paper aims to examine the curriculum matrices of Pedagogy courses of the Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP that intend to prepare future teachers to follow an inclusive perspective. To this end, the political-pedagogical projects of six Pedagogy courses, the University resolutions that regulate the courses and excerpts taken from interviews carried out with course coordinators were analyzed. In order to analyze the curriculum matrices, the required subjects were distributed on a table according to the following categories: 1) specific subjects related to inclusive education, 2) number of hours of each subject related to inclusive education, 3) specific subjects related to special education and 4) amount of time scheduled for each subject related to special education. Among the six Pedagogy courses, five had subjects that focused on issues related to inclusive education, with varying time allotments, and four had subjects focusing on specific issues related to special education.

Africanidades brasileiras na produção de conteúdo educativo para a televisão digital: uma contribuição para a educação das relações étnico-raciais

Pós-graduação em Televisão Digital: Informação e Conhecimento - FAAC

Formação de leitores surdos e a educação inclusiva

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Opinião de profissionais da educação e da saúde sobre o uso da prancha ortostática para o aluno com paralisia cerebral

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Tendências e perspectivas da produção acadêmica sobre a temática educação de surdos: mapeamento da produção

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Inclusão de alunos com deficiência na aula de educação física: identificando dificuldades, ações e conteúdos para prover a formação do professor

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Revisão sistemática acerca das políticas de educação inclusiva para a formação de professores

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Formação do professor de educação física para inclusão de alunos com deficiência

The paper aims to describe the steps undertaken in the development of a training program to prepare the physical education teacher to meet the demand of inclusion of students with disabilities. Seventeen physical education teachers who worked in public schools, from 1st to 5th grade, participated in the first step. The Data were collected through focus group. The analysis was performed in categories. Two teachers participated in Stage 2, which consists of 28 classes that there was a student with disabilities enrolled. The reports focus group identified eight different subcategories of difficulties: 1 ) Training , 2) Administrative-school issue ; 3 ) Student ; 4 ) Diagnosis ; 5 ) Family ; 6 ) Teaching resource ; 7 ) Strategies ; 8 ) Physical Education. The filming analysis enabled to identify difficulties and success situations of each teacher. The identification of the difficulties pointed out ways to prepare Physical Education teachers, and based on such difficulties actionsand contents that include a training program may be stipulated.

Ocorrência de artigos em periódicos científicos a respeito da formação continuada de professores de educação infantil para a atuação com crianças com deficiência

The professional development of teachers to work with children with disabilities is a recurring theme in the literature, as it is one of the keys to effective educational inclusion. However, studies carried out so far have mainly focused on training elementary school teachers. Given this context, this study sought to investigate: the occurrence of articles whose main objective is professional development for teachers of early childhood education to work with children with disabilities; and the methodology used in the professional development programs assessed by those papers. Articles published from 1990 to 2012, in the following journals, were analyzed: Educação e Pesquisa (USP), Revista Psicologia Escolar e Educacional, Pro-Posições (Unicamp), Revista Brasileira de Educação Especial e Revista Educação Especial (UFSM). After selecting the journals, the titles of all articles published within the period considered were read. Articles deemed relevant articles were read in full, and analyzed, according to the purposes of this research. The results indicated that within the period considered, and based on the journals chosen for investigation, there were no specific articles on the subject directly, although there have been articles that touch on the issue. This literature review emphasizes the importance of expanding research on the subject, in order to widen knowledge in the area, especially knowledge aimed at contributing to early childhood education and the professional development of its teachers.

Uso da entrevista em dissertações e teses produzidas em um programa de pós-graduação em educação

The interview has been a widely used procedure of research in humanities. Despite the frequent use, researches are not always supported in the literature on research methodology. The aim of this study was to analyze how the interview was used in dissertations and theses in a graduate Program in Education at a university in Sao Paulo state. This study examined 167 final papers developed in to period of five years. Variables focused were: justification for the use of interview, type of interview used, guide elaboration and adaptation, kind of analysis, among others. The results showed that it is still necessary to incorporate the contents of the research methodology underlying the use of the interview to achieve the scientific rigor for this procedure.

Uso de sistemas de comunicação suplementar e alternativa na Educação Infantil: percepção do professor

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Resources have proven to be helpful in the insertion of students with disabilities and complex communication needs into a variety of pedagogical activities and expand the skills and competencies of the teacher in the teaching-learning. The objective of this research was to identify the perception of teachers regarding the use of augmentative and alternative communication during an intervention program in Preschool. Participants were a special class of Preschool students with disabilities and severe communication complexity, along with their teacher and the researcher. For the development of this research, a Alternative Communication Program was applied. The teacher was provided with systematic guidance concerning language and communication. In a collaborative process, three children’s songs were selected according to the teacher’s pedagogical planning and adapted resources through Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems. During the intervention program, assisted evaluations also took place immediately after the activities with the music. The data were collected in audio recordings. For data analysis, content analysis was carried out resulting in the outlining of themes and subthemes. Results indicated that the teacher identified that Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems can to facilitate expression abilities of students with disabilities; that Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems can be used by children in Preschool; and that resources adapted through augmentative and alternative communication systems should be in accordance with the specificities of students.