The History of Expansion of School Inclusion and the Demands of Regular Education Disseminated by a Newspaper

Considering that the history of Brazilian Special Education has been described predominantly based on official texts, this study had the objective of retelling and analyzing the stories about the repercussion of the expansion of school inclusion and the demands for the regular teaching in a newspaper of great circulation in the country.

The documentary corpus consisted of 295 texts published in the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo from 1997 to 2004, which were disposed of at least one describer, previously established. By bringing back some stories told by the newspaper, it was possible to identify an increase in the number of enrollments of the target population of Special Education in regular education, with an emphasis on the exposition of successful experiences of school inclusion in private schools, whereas, in the case of public schools, problems and challenges were portrayed.