Abstract

MARTINEZ-FIGUEIRA, Mª Esther; PARAMO-IGLESIAS, Mª Beatriz  and  DE MATOS CLAUDINO NECHO, Eugénia Maria. Today`s Issues to the Inclusion: A Case Study in a Early Childhood Education Portuguese Classrooms. Rev. Actual. Investig. Educ [online]. 2015, vol.15, n.1, pp.621-639. ISSN 1409-4703.

This essay is a reflection on the new paradigm of school nowadays in Portuguese classrooms, required to the process of change towards inclusive education. We face this task with the aim of assessing a kindergarten teacher`s inclusive perceptions in Vila Real (Portugal) in the school year 2013/2014. It is a qualitative and interpretative research from a descriptive and exploratory perspective based on a case study. In order to collect Data collection it was performed by a triangulation of instruments (interview, observation scale, documents, audiovisual materials and field notes) and different information sources (teacher and researchers), in order to perform a triangulation of data and to confirm the emergence of an inclusive ideology and teaching practices in this classroom. First results provide several points for reflection: (1) a look at the inclusion, equity, in terms of opportunity, to ask issues and challenges; (2) it is suggested the need to make changes in teaching practices and values; and (3) it`s something natural that this whole elements (spaces, activities, times and relationships) are configured to realize an inclusive education in classroom the proposal relates, only to the particularizing of the study, without trying to make generalizations.

Keywords : inclusive education; early childhood; teacher evaluation; case study; inclusion; Portugal.

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