Associação de Pais e Amigos dos Excepcionais (APAE) – Aracaju : formação de professores e práticas educativas (1968-1988)

Abstract

This dissertation aims to investigate about the Teacher Training and Educational Practices of the APAE of Aracaju from 1968 to 1988. The time frame is justified by the date of foundation and by the promulgation of the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil of 1988, the seventh Constitution of the country. It investigated as the process of formation of the teachers that entered the association in a period of ignorance of the Special Education in the capital of Sergipe happened. Due to the scarcity of literature and academic work, as evidenced through the State of the Art and laws that ensure the right of people with disabilities in environments common to all. It was a bibliographical and documentary research, with an approach in Cultural History, of exploratory character and focus in the analysis of qualitative content. The methodological pathway was carried out through exploratory visits, observations, document analysis and semi-structured interviews with 14 informants, with 09 teachers, 01 Social Worker, 01 Occupational Therapist, 01 Nursing Technician, 01 Volunteer and 01 Agricultural Technician. Through the Content Analysis based on Bardin (2011), the research evidenced that the formations were essential for the development of the association against the ignorance of Special Education by the informants and that the educative practices, at first they were given by intuition, but with the theoretical foundation acquired in the courses and the exchanges of experiences among colleagues, social blindness was giving way to the “blossoming of daisies” that made "History" within the History of the Aracaju‟s APAE.