A singular guidance department in a school that has collaboration as identity sign

Abstract

Inclusive education remains a challenge of our educational agenda. Its construction necessarily involves processes of collaboration between different educational agents and institutions. One of the professionals that can play a key role in this context is the counselor. However, studies show that collaboration between guidance departments and other agents of the educational community is limited. In particular, the advice for improving the curriculum continues to be an unresolved issue. This work is a unique case study that shows the working model of an guidancen department that has deeply reconfigured its practice with the intention of reducing the processes of exclusion among the students and developing a more collaborative work with the teachers and the curricular advice. The data collection techniques used were: the interview, the focus group and the participant observation. The results show that the reunification of functions among the members of the guidance deparment, the teaching, the development of an inclusive orientation and the work for the improvement of the family-school relationship, are fundamental pieces in the work of these professionals.