Special Education and the Family Relationship - School: Analysis of scientific production of theses and dissertations

Abstract:The family-school relationship has been pointed out by the literature in the areas of special education and psychology as a major facilitating factors in the school inclusion process. Considering these factors, this research aimed to identify and analyze the scientific production of theses and dissertations produced in the 2001-2011 period on the relationship between children of family-school target audience of special education. This requires a systematic search at the Bank of CAPES Theses and used a plug adapted for the analysis of the subject, the methodology and the results of each production was performed. They analyzed a total of 20 productions. The results show that much of the research is in southeastern graduate programs, presents descriptive methodology, adopts a social conception of disability and the main theme was the "attitude / perception" of family and school members on the inclusion process. It observed the lack of intervention studies in the area.