A educação especial em Maceió/Alagoas e a implementação da política do atendimento educacional especializado

Abstract

This study seeks to recover aspects of the History of Special Education of the city of Maceió/AL and analyze the current process of policy implementation of specialized educational services (SES) in public schools of this city. In addition, we also describe some of the geographic, political, economic, social and educational conditions of the city of Maceió, because these characteristics may explain some of the results that were uncovered. We chose the documentary analysis approach as a way to diagnose the reality under investigation. The results indicate that Special Education in Maceió is fairly recent, and that despite this, attempts have been made to answer the current policies providing for SES schools of the municipal education system. Nevertheless, several difficulties were encountered, namely: precarious architectural structure of school buildings and the lack of qualified professionals. These difficulties are similar to the city's general reality, as a place that faces serious problems of economic, political, social and educational nature, which undercut the development of education as a whole and Special Education in particular. Therefore, there is urgent need for policies/actions to promote not only the improvement of specialized professional development for the SES and infrastructure conditions of school buildings, but mainly the enhancement and strengthening of the municipal system of education which, for many years has suffered the neglect of bad public administration.