Explore the Conceptions of Teachers regarding Inclusive Education Process for Improving Institutional

Abstract

This paper aims to meet the teachers’ conceptions related to inclusive education in order to make an improvement proposal through pedagogical practices that strictly respond to diversity on an educational center from the IX region. The is a qualitative research with a phenomenological design that includes a sample of 22 teachers who had to answer a dilemma questionnaire and a semi-structured interview to a sub-sample by classifying their answers according to three typology of beliefs, labeled: segregator, integrator and inclusive. The results indicate high preference for inclusive theories, although their practices are closer to the segregator and integrator assumptions. For this reason, an improvement proposal is presented in relation to designing and managing instances of communication and participation, as well as pedagogical reflections for the analysis of conceptions and the improvement of collaborative work as a strategy to facilitate the inclusive education process.