Profile of studies on curriculum adaptation in the context of regular school

Abstract

In order to investigate the knowledge about the curriculum adaptation in the context of regular school, the current study aimed to analyze the productions of national (Brazilian) researchers on curriculum adaptation published in the Annals of the Brazilian Congress of Special Education. This is an exploratory-descriptive study, grounded in the technique of bibliographical research, which allows the researcher to understand and analyze issues already studied. To collect data, it was performed a survey of all abstracts of studies published in the meetings that focused on curriculum adaptation, and 29 abstracts were selected and organized in categories of analysis such as target audience of the research, trends of studies (objectives), classification of adapted disciplines and classification of types of adaptations described in research. The results indicate that the thematic of curriculum adaptation shows a small number of published studies, and, in most cases, they aim to describe and analyze how the curricular adaptations occur especially when they are about individuals with visual impairments. The demand of adaptations is directed to the discipline of Portuguese Language and normally they tend to affect directly the school curriculum. Thus, we can conclude that to adapt the curriculum is not about creating a new curriculum, but make it dynamic, changeable, capable of expansion, to really meets all learners, and this requires a collaborative working between all those involved in the educational process, as well as the need for further studies in this area.