SPECIAL EDUCATION AND COLABORATIVE TEACHING PRACTICES : ANALYSIS OF A TRAINING PROCESS
PROCESS WITH EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS
SPECIAL EDUCATION
COLABORATIVE TEACHING PRACTICES
TRAINING
This work was carried out in the line of investigation Processes of Education and Learning from the Perspective of Special Education of the Postgraduate Program in Special Education (PPGEEsp) of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), with the objective of analyzing a training process, referred to discussions on collaborative teaching, with education professionals from the public teaching network of the state of Rio Grande do Norte (RN), attached to the 4th Regional Directorate of Education and Culture (DIREC). It is theoretically based on studies by Mendes (2006), Damiani (2008), Fontes (2013), Vilaronga and Mendes (2017), Cristo y Mendes (2019), Nazário (2021), Cunha (2022) and Silva (2023) . The methodological approach adopted in this study was qualitative research based on intervention. In terms of objectives, it is characterized by being an exploratory investigation, which provides greater familiarity with the problem investigated, with a view to making it more explicit (Gil, 2002). Regarding technical procedures, this is a participatory investigation, characterized by the implication and identification of the researcher with her group of interlocutors. The subjects involved in the investigation are a group of once teachers from five schools of the 4th Regional Directorate of Education and Culture (DIREC) - SEEC/RN, who participated in the extension course "Collaborative Enseñanza: inclusion from the perspective of double enseñanza", product of this investigation. The education professionals who participated in the dialogue group are: Special Education teachers, Specialized Educational Care teachers, ordinary class teachers, pedagogical coordinators and school managers. The study reveals that the process of teaching and learning in a collaborative dimension continues to be a challenge and indicates the need to redesign the curriculum, guarantee time and space for joint planning and reverse the training continues throughout the teaching team and their leadership schools, with a view to guaranteeing the learning rights of all students.