Prototypical analysis of regular class teachers about the resource room

Abstract

This research is an integral part of the Professional Master’s Degree in Science and Health Teaching, of a Higher Education Institution in the State of Rio de Janeiro, and aims to identify the main cognems of Basic Education teachers, of a public school in the Baixada Fluminense region, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, about the Multifunctional Resource Room. To the group, a Test of Free Evocation of Words was applied from the inducing term “resource room” and the analysis was performed by the Evocation 2000 software. Moscovici’s Theory of Social Representations (1961) was the main theoretical contribution of the research. In this way, we sought to detect possible beliefs that regular class teachers develop about the resource room of the school unit where they work in an attempt to value the knowledge and opinions of these professionals in relation to Specialized Educational Assistance (AEE)[3] and to think of possible strategies that can contribute to collaborative work between regular class teachers and resource room teachers. As a result, the centrality of representation reveals that ‘love’ is the gear for the space to function. On the other hand, the periphery reveals the character of help and zeal in assisting students with special needs.