INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN THE BRAZILIAN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT

Abstract

This study aims to conduct a literature review on inclusive education in the Brazilian education system. It was verified in the work that the federal government has been increasing the efforts to guarantee the inclusive education in the regular education in the public and private schools of the country. However, this process is still far from complete, given the need for structural and ideological changes that will provide a real inclusion of disabled people, even if the country has achieved important victories in the struggle for equal rights and quality of life expressly indicated in the Federal Constitution of 1988. However, Brazilian education has been the subject of intense debates, discussions and laws that seek to promote the equanimity of rights for all students. Thus, the study is characterized as qualitative and descriptive. As for the technical procedures, a bibliographical and documentary survey was carried out on previously published studies in: books, theses, dissertations, articles, and other publications that deal with the subject. This work is relevant because it exposes the need for knowledge formation on the inclusion of students with special needs in regular education and to bring the subject to the field of debate and discussions so that it is possible to find solutions to the problems of inclusion that still afflict society.