The importance of overcoming barriers between family and school for the construction of a collaborative work for the school inclusion of the son and student with high gifted and talented

Abstract

The School inclusion of the gifted and talented students (G/T) has been a challenge for some teachers. This fact lies on the lack of knowledge about the theme of G/T, which may occur due to the wrong conceptions socially widespread, adding to that an incipient initial education in relation to G/T students. Accordingly, it is necessary to create support networks so that school inclusion of G/T students becomes effective. In this sense, the family could be a support network and set up a partnership with the school. This paper sought understand this articulation between family and school, verifying the barriers that hinder this partnership, in addition to visualizing possible influences of the family in the process of school inclusion of the child/student with the G/T. Regarding the method, the study case within the qualitative approach was chosen. The instruments of data collection selected were: Checklist of Shared Routine and Engagement between Family-school, Version for Teachers, and Checklist of Shared Routine and Engagement between Family-school, Version for Parents (mother, father, or guardian), both validated by Dessen and Polonia (2011). This study included 12 families with children identified as G/T and 11 teachers. The final considerations point to a relation between family and school that is still incipient, due to the fact that some barriers/constraints were identified, having prevailed an accusative relationship, which may be hindering the construction of a partnership relation. There were specific cases in which there was conjunction between both institutions, and that result in greater influence/participation of the family in the school life of the G/T child.