MATEMÁTICA E BAIXA VISÃO: UMA ANÁLISE SOBRE AS FORMAÇÕES CONTINUADAS

Abstract

The project originated from the concern as a licensed Mathematics educator that many students who have low vision do not receive attention or adequate material for their school learning, also started from the complaint of many teachers who do not receive adequate training in initial and continuing education to work with special students. For this reason, it was sought to carry out a research whose objective is to analyze articles that deal with the continuing education offered to Mathematics teachers of regular education, diagnosing the quantity and quality of these training extended to teachers who work with people with low vision. For the development of the work, qualitative research was used, using bibliographic research as a method in order to verify the scientific productions that relate the formation of teachers in special education with the teaching and learning of Mathematics, with the search for primary sources . For the collection of the material, the database of the repository of the Portal of Periodicals of Capes of the Ministry of Education and Culture was used through free access. For the selection criteria, the one defined by Lima and Mioto (2007) was applied, excluding productions that are not related to the research objective. Thus, searches were made for subjects that are related to mathematics and visual impairment, where, the results point out that of the ten selected articles 50% portrays the training for teachers in an inclusive context and 50% do not portray. In view of the results, it was concluded that there is little offer of training for mathematics teachers of students with low vision and, when offered, they are inadequate or insufficient, lack of public policies, as well as their offer by the government. It was also concluded that the articles do not portray the process of assessing students' learning or their learning difficulties. However, they report the difficulties of teachers in the face of these limitations and that little research is being developed within this context.