A new curricular scenario in the Chilean special school: a consultation with the differential education teacher

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Abstract

Compendium entitled “A New Curricular Scenario in the Chilean Special School: A Necessary Consultation to the Teacher of Differential Education”. The investigation is located in the promulgation of Decree 83/2015, and how it affects special schools in Chile. Before coming into effect. Under these regulations, schools were focused on a welfare approach, with a medical model, where learning was limited to presence deficit biological characteristics Student research national curriculum with an approach special through appreciation differential education teacher. For this purpose, teachers from the Special Schools of the Metropolitan Region are considered, using a quantitative, transversal, non-experimental paradigm, applying a Likert scale survey and open questions. The main result shows an advance of the pedagogical model over a medical model, among the advantages they recognize that the curriculum provides spaces to strengthen the use of diversified strategies. However, teachers require greater support in preparing for a complex, content-based national curriculum, which requires collaborative work spaces to appropriate, contextualize and diversify teaching for incapacity intellectual students.

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Educational Policy, Curriculum, Special Education, Universal Education, Universal Education, Diversification of education,, Inclusive Approach