Proposal for a Service Protocol and Pedagogical Didactic Guidelines for Autistic High School Students in the Context of Science Education
Autism, Protocol, High School, Science Education.
Current laws guarantee rights to autistic people as well as people with disabilities, but enrollments are still rejected and these students, victims of exclusion, do not always receive the appropriate follow-up and development they need. It is evident the difficulties of autistic students in adapting the strategies and teaching methodologies proposed in many schools. The existence of methodological and social obstacles affect the teaching-learning process and the development of these students in the context the Science Education in High School: main objective of our work, with a focus on welcoming and pedagogical didactic guidelines for collaborative work between the specialist teacher and the teacher of the common class, seeking to facilitate the learning of these students and meet their specific needs as, as its potential. The research consists of three stages: (1) the interviews, (2) the construction of the protocol and (3) the validation of the protocol. The methodology used was qualitative, which has its interest in the speeches of the professors and in the dialogic interaction between participants and the researcher, allowing reflections of attitudes, feelings and impressions as data that can be analyzed. In the first phase, the method used in the construction of the data was the semi-structured interview with two high school teachers: (i) autistic teacher, (ii) a teacher father of an autistic daughter. Data analysis took place through Dialogical Thematic Analysis, establishing themes and sub-themes that were presented throughout the speeches. The intense reading of the participants' speeches provided the construction and analysis of maps of meanings for each teacher to then be interpreted and serve as parameters for the construction of our protocol. The results of the first phase showed the reality of the autistic person in the school context, presenting the needs of these students and the teachers' difficulty in dealing with the specificities of this public in the classroom, which justifies the construction of a training material: our protocol, capable of to guide their pedagogical practice with a view to the development and training for citizenship of the autistic student through a contextualized approach to Science Teaching aimed at everyone's understanding.