Considerations About the Terminology Pupils with Special Educational Needs

Authors

  • Silmara Aparecida Lopes Universidade de Sorocaba-UNISO Localizada em Sorocaba-SP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/1984686X13355

Keywords:

Special Education, Public policies, Students with special educational needs.

Abstract

This article focuses mainly on the analysis of terminology “pupils with special educational needs” and part of the target audience of public policy in special education, the people with disabilities, given that other groups of students were being added to it. In this sense, we tried to understand how the concepts of normality/abnormality were built over time and which economic, social and political order issues, have influenced the general education and special education, more specifically. The terminology “pupils with special educational needs”, by covering a variety of learners and being forged as neutral and abstract, contributed to conceal economic, political, social and cultural determinants that act on the characterization of the abnormality (which is not an abstraction, but a category historically constructed by society), disguising the real and poor educational opportunities offered to the masses of our country to continue receiving an arbitrary education in homeopathic doses, which is very convenient to the ruling classes.

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Author Biography

Silmara Aparecida Lopes, Universidade de Sorocaba-UNISO Localizada em Sorocaba-SP

Mestranda em Educação pela Universidade de Sorocaba(UNISO) na linha de pesquisa:História e historiografia: políticas e práticas escolares.

Orientadora no curso de mestrado supra:Prof. Dr.ª.JANE SOARES DE ALMEIDA.

Minha pesquisa no mestrado refere-se à Educação Especial, cujo título é: A educação Especial no Estado de São Paulo: um estudo histórico(foco maior 1980-2010).

 

e mail para contato: silmaralopes2008@hotmail.com

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Published

2014-09-23

How to Cite

Lopes, S. A. (2014). Considerations About the Terminology Pupils with Special Educational Needs. Special Education Magazine, 27(50), 737–750. https://doi.org/10.5902/1984686X13355

Issue

Revista Educação Especial, v. 27, n. 50, set./dez. 2014

Section

Continuous Demand

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