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Voluntary paid internship; Inclusive education; Disability.
The inclusion of students with disability, developmental disorders, high-abilities and intellectual giftedness have reconstructed the school environment. The democratization of the learning-teaching process, new concepts of pedagogical practices and new agents of mediation have emerged to overcome multiple existing barriers, from architectural to pedagogical aspects, and among them, the paid internship student. This thesis aims to analyze in what way the paid internship student’s pedagogical practice has been established towards students with intellectual and multiple disabilities in a regular city school from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. Specifically, we aim to describe the process of this practice identifying its difficulties, challenges and perspectives. Thus, to achieve the proposed objectives, we choose to adopt a qualitative approach (CHIZZOTTI, 1995) with an exploratory research profile (GIL, 2007). As an investigative method, we use the Case Study, which characterize as a kind of research whose object is an unity which is analyzed profoundly, involving the detailed exam of an environment, of a simple subject or of a particular situation (GODOY, 1995; YIN, 2001). We use, for the data construction, the semi structured interview, that was conducted with two paid internship students, a regular class teacher and the education administrator, guided by a script that was validated and structured from observations and field journals. The data analysis was based on the Content Analysis (BARDIN, 2011) with the categories of Formation; Pedagogical practice in the internship process; and Inclusion. We finished this study pointing out to the collaborative teaching as a support for school inclusion, highlighting the need for the participation of every agent in the school environment in the promotion of effective inclusion.