Survey of teachers with disabilities working in public schools in São Paulo

Abstract

There are many discussions about the rights of people with disabilities and their accomplishment in the academic, social, educational and public policy spheres. However, researches reached the conclusion that Brazil is still trying to guarantee these rights and, in the educational field, there is not much debate about teachers with disabilities in school. Therefore, this study aimed to survey teachers with disabilities working in the municipal public network of São Paulo, to find their number and what characterizes them. We resorted to statistical analysis of microdata about teachers with disabilities in São Paulo city, deriving from the statistical synopsis of basic education in 2018. Through quantitative analysis, using the SPSS Statistics® software, we obtained eighteen research subjects, corresponding to 0.05% of the total of teachers in the municipality. Most of them were women, had physical disabilities, worked in early childhood and elementary education in poorer regions of the city and had their initial training in private undergraduate studies institutions. These data show that the percentage of teachers with disabilities is low, indicating the need of further studies in the area, in order to think about public policies that guarantee their access to the teaching profession and their permanence in the municipal public education network.