Em elaboração.
Special Education; Politics of educational inclusion; Public managers
Despite the increase of special-needs students’ enrollment in regular schools in the last few years, as evidenced by Política Nacional de Educação Especial na Perspectiva da Educação Inclusiva (Brasil, 2008a), the following researches by Kowalski (2011); Bueno e Meletti (2011); Jesus (2012); Nogueira (2012); Michels e Garcia (2014), identified challenges organizing high-quality special-needs public education in the municipal network in the current state of Brazilian special education. The following research focuses on Special Education in the perspective of Inclusive Education, in addition to the possible arrangements and articulations with the current public politics, in the context of the municipal Secretariat of Education in Macaíba, RN (SME). It states that in order to structure special education with inclusive perspectives in the municipal scope, public managers at the Secretariat of Education must embrace the politics and the organization of this modality, promoting the concept of transversality in its systems of general education. Through a qualitative approach, the research analyzes how special education has been organized in the municipal educational system of Macaíba, RN, promoting the development of an intervention with a group of managers from the SME. It was developed an interventional proposition intending to involve these managers in the diagnosis of the Special Education in the municipality. The methodological approach used was of collaborative research-action and the following axes: scholar exclusion-inclusion based on Castel (1997); Martins (1997), Patto (2008), Crochik (2011); deficiency based on Januzzi (1992); Vygotsky (1997); Magalhães (2002); Skliar (2006); Diniz (2007); Martins (2011); and general politics and educational based on Bobbio (1995); Arelaro (2003); Shiroma, Moraes and Evangelista (2007); Bueno (2008); Cury (2011; 2013); Kassar (2011); Garcia (2013); Saviani (2014) among other authors. The field research occurred in the head office of the SME between February and December 2015, and involved from 11 to 13 public managers (nominated with distinguishable colors). The research made use of document analyses, field diaries, questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and guidance in the Mesas de Trabalho. Six intervention encounters took place. The analytical process was guided by the analysis of content (BARDIN, 1994). The research also proved difficulties in organizing due to unsystematic pedagogical planning. The school census data also proved to be imprecise and in discordance. It showed the distance between the politics and the managerial practice, especially from the 6 th to the 9 th grades and the adult education programs. Special education was not organized as a legitimate transversal modality throughout all steps of education, as far as the municipality’s scope of responsibility goes. The core managers realized that once embracing what the guidelines and the politics of inclusion entail, the management could attend the complexity and transversality of special education, resulting, then, in the outlining of actions geared towards facing the “barriers” of inclusion.