Banca de DEFESA: FAUSTINO EMILIO ARENCIBIA JAIME

THE SOCIAL MISSION OF THE CENTER OF SPECIAL EDUCATION OF BAHIA, REUNION WITH TEACHERS OF THE NUCLEUS OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION FOR WORK: A CASE TO STUDY

Social Mission; World of Work; Worked; person with intellectual disability,

This research seeks to identify from the conceptions of the teachers of the Bahia Special Education Center (CEEBA), between the years 2008-2018 (± 2 years), any transformation in the Social Mission of this entity, which functions as a Center for Pedagogical support for people with intellectual disabilities (PcDI) who reside in the Salvador de Bahía municipality and the Metropolitan region of Salvador. As a hypothesis, the author anticipates claiming that: if said change really existed, it could have been perceived by the students, by their relatives or by the Faculty who worked in the entity during that period. Being the perception that the latter have, which mobilizes the author to identify possible changes in the object of this study. To approach the investigation, the author refers to the Case Study since, according to Yin (2001), it is related to the life stories of individuals or personalities that somehow stood out from the others. And being consistent with that perspective of Yin, the author, who had previously granted life to a nucleus that lives within the CEEBA (the NEIT), decides through this investigation to present it socially and register it as a legitimate son of a specific inclusion, the inclusion in the World of Work of PwID, a contemporary phenomenon, which in its manifestation and evolution in the Brazilian capitalist context, has at times been celebrated and attacked by the governments of the day. It is based on Vygotsky's Socio-Historical-Cultural Theory and on the discernment of great authors such as Antônio Gramsci, Olga Franco García and Esteban Tomás Ramírez-Domínguez, whose author sheds light on the capacity of Work, as a liberating category, to also present itself as an Educational Principle in an educational institution that demonstrates that in addition to assuming specialized educational care guided by law, students can be reoriented under the Martian principle of Educating for Life through a Specialized Professional Care that allows inclusion of these in the world of work. The information recorded through the Narrative Interviews proposed by Roberto Sidnei Macedo find in Dialectical Hermeneutics and Discourse Analysis, efficient tools to unravel the senses and meanings that they produced, arriving to verify in the investigation that: The Social Mission of an educational institution has a dialectical behavior and must be (re)structured according to the context in which the Pedagogical Practice takes place.