Educação inclusiva e o ensino de botânica - produção de uma cartilha no Sistema Braille para o estudo da morfologia vegetal para alunos com deficiência visual.6UY7

Abstract

Inclusive education must be available to everyone, regardless of disability, color or religion. And it must be present everywhere and at all levels of education. Thus, this work aimed to analyze the teaching and learning process in Biology for students with some type of visual impairment in a regular school in the city of Parintins/AM. The research adopted was qualitative and the data collection instruments were the bibliographic review on the research theme and the field research. The field research took place through a questionnaire applied to students who have visual impairment, being carried out through open questions about inclusive education and the teaching of Biology. A booklet was produced in Braille and in high relief on plant morphology to teach botany to students with visual impairments. The research subjects were 4 students, 1 from the Nossa Senhora do Carmo school of a 3rd Year High School class and 3 students from the Dom Gino Malvestio State School of a 3rd Year High School class, both located in the urban area of municipality of Parintins/AM. The research results pointed out the challenges faced by visually impaired students in relation to the teaching and learning process in Biology, such as the development of traditional teaching methodology, absence of practical classes, lack of materials adapted for the visually impaired and Biology textbooks not adapted. With this, we realize that there are still many obstacles to inclusion, such as the availability of adapted teaching resources, investment in continuing and specialized training of teachers, implementation of adequate and inclusive teaching methodologies for students with visual impairments. The reports show us how important and necessary the inclusion of visually impaired students is and how much we still need to advance towards building an inclusive society in which students can develop their professional skills.