Educação inclusiva em revistas pedagógicas: análises de conteúdo e bibliométrica

Abstract

Educational magazines are a subset of educational periodicals that have been widely read by teachers and undergraduate students in teacher development courses in Brazil. Although they have an important role in beginning and ongoing teacher development programs, with impact on pedagogical practices used in the classroom, such magazines have not been researched. The lack of research is of even greater concern when one focuses upon the conceptions and practices of inclusive education conveyed in this kind of material. In order to perform bibliometric and content analysis of articles written between 1994 and 2005 on inclusion in schools in two educational periodicals, 40 texts were selected and analyzed, 24 from the AMAE Educando magazine and 16 from Presença Pedagógica. The main bibliometric features of the articles on inclusion of these two magazines are: descriptive or teacher reports; personal essays; and presentation of literature and references. As to the content of these articles, the main theme is inclusion in school in general, without specification as to one or more kinds of special educational needs. They adopt an educational approach for school inclusion that does not discuss teaching levels of education services. Differences between the magazines were detected, but there were more similarities than discrepancies among them. The articles' limitations were analyzed as to theoretical and practical bases for inclusion in school.