Social representations of special education teachers, from the practices of educational inclusion

The inclusion promoted by the teacher in teaching settings guarantees that diversity can become a reality within the educational process. Therefore, the main objective of this research was to establish the social representations about the pedagogical practice of inclusion developed in the school. The methodological process develops qualitative research with a hermeneutic epistemological perspective, this is developed from a narrative entry with semi-structured interviews and uses content analysis as a data collection technique. The analysis of social representations is a starting point to consolidate teacher training scenarios that contribute to the missionary horizon of inclusion as a key to diversity. This process consolidated five social representations: Inclusion as a principle of diversity; pedagogical practice as a stage for learning perseverance and independence; inclusive pedagogical practice mediated by training; pedagogical adaptability to the difficulties encountered in inclusive settings; inclusive pedagogical practice mediated by the multimodal growth of all actors.