LETTERS, DISABILITY AND INITIAL TEACHER TRAINING FOR INCLUSIVE CONTEXTS

Abstract

This article is an excerpt from a Doctoral work and deals with the initial training of teachers, focusing on the invisibility of people with disabilities. It is a qualitative research, which has as its documentary corpus letters written by undergraduate students of the Pedagogy course of a public university in the Northeast of Brazil. The letters were constructed in the discipline of Inclusive Education. The writing, the organisation of the documents and the successive readings were carried out under the inspiration of Bardin's content analysis. The argument, in turn, was built in the form of an essay. The analysis of the letters demonstrates the importance of inserting in the field of initial teacher training the studies on disability, since there is still an invisibility of people with disabilities in educational institutions, reinforcing the normocentric discourses and capacitating ideas.