FROM CONCEPTS TO SUPPLECOMPLEMENTATION: SPECIALIZED EDUCATIONAL SERVICE FOR PARADOXICALLY UNIQUE STUDENT
Specialized Educational Assistance, Double Exceptionality, Science Teaching.
Interest in understanding the complexity of the learning process for students with Double Exceptionalities dates back to the 20th century. However, we still face a lack of research that addresses pedagogical practices for this student population, considered one of the most invisible and underidentified, consequently not having their educational needs met, especially in the context of Science Education. People with Double Exceptionalities are those who simultaneously present high abilities/giftedness in association with a disability and/or disorder. In this Doctoral Thesis, we aim to identify, define, and characterize conceptions of Double Exceptionalities that support Specialized Educational Assistance for Students with Double Exceptionalities in the context of Science Education in the Federal District, considering the Regions of Influence of Campus II and III. The methodological approach that guided the research was qualitative, as we understand that we investigate a phenomenon that is impacted by the sociocultural context, which is the inclusion of students with Double Exceptionalities. As research designs, we used Grounded Theory, the main research design due to the nature of the Thesis, new perspectives and theoretical positioning based on the data analyzed. As intermediate designs, we used Documentary Research, Integrative Literature Review and Narrative Research, aiming to contemplate each specific research objective. The data were analyzed in light of the Theoretical Assumptions of Discursive Textual Analysis, an analysis technique that we consider appropriate to the research design of Grounded Theory. After Data Analysis, the information constructed allows us to affirm that the conception of Double Exceptionality and Specialized Educational Assistance for students with Double Exceptionality is Summative, Segregating and Excluding. A conception that the student with Double Exceptionality is a person who is constituted from the sum of two or more conditions, and therefore explains the offer of Specialized Educational Assistance in a fragmented way in complementation or supplementation. In this sense, considering the emerging and necessary demand, we bring as an innovation in this Doctoral Thesis the creation of the SUPPLECOMPLEMENTARY nomenclature, which comprises a third type of Specialized Educational Assistance Service for students, which in this Thesis, we name as Paradoxically Singular. A service that understands the Paradoxically Singular student in a unified, integral and complex perspective of existence. We believe it is relevant to think of a name that gives visibility to the identity of these students, therefore, we suggest the concept Paradoxically Singular to refer to students who have a unique aggregating condition, that is, students who have, in an associated way, high abilities, disability and/or disorder. Finally, our Thesis is that Paradoxically Singular students interested in the area of Science Education should be offered supplecomplementary Specialized Educational Assistance.