PEDAGOGIC WORK WITH STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES: THE POTENTIAL OF THREE LEARNING OBJECTS

Abstract

In this text, the aim is to present the results of a research that aimed to analyze the potential of three Learning Objects for the work of pedagogical support to students with intellectual disabilities. Seven students participated in the study that frequented the Center of the Promotion to the Digital Inclusion, School and Social (CPIDES) of Unesp-FCT. The study is based on qualitative research, type intervention and oriented by the Constructionist, Contextualized and Significant approach. On this approach, the knowledge is constructed by means of educational practices that favor learning considering the context of student, starting of what it is significant. The procedures for data collection were based in documentary research, cataloguing of three objects of learning, are they: A working day in the farm, Space Travel, Game of Mimocas, besides the planning, development and evaluation of an intervention program. The data analysis was guided by content analysis. The results showed that the three Learning Objects, although they were not appropriate to the age of participants, were constituted as an important educational tool capable of stimulating various cognitive abilities because of the opportunity to use the sensory senses simultaneously, providing development and skills, stimulating creativity and interactivity, motor coordination and logical thinking.