SCIENCE TEACHING IN THE FINAL YEARS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL II: CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF ADAPTED TEACHING SEQUENCES FOR STUDENTS WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER
Didactic sequence; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Inclusive education; Science teaching; Human anatomy.
This research is being developed within the scope of the Graduate Program in Inclusive Education - PROFEI at the Federal University of Amapá/UNIFAP and is part of the Research Line: Practices and Formative Processes of Educators for Inclusive Education. The aim of this research is to develop an educational technology in the form of Didactic Sequences (DS) for the continuing education of science teachers in the final years of primary school for the inclusion of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The research is of the technological type with a methodological approach according to the Design Science Research (DSR) method, in which the stages used were: identification of the problem to be studied, narrative literature review, definition of objectives, development of the artifact which are the didactic sequences constructed, evaluation of this artifact for its validation, finalization of the artifact and communication of the research, which corresponds to the presentation of the educational resource. The literature review was carried out with the aim of analyzing recent works that address the use of didactic sequences as a strategy for including students with ASD in science classes, specifically for anatomy content. It was thus possible to infer that the use of DS improves the inclusion of students with ASD, as long as it is planned properly. The development of the DS, proposed in this research, will take place in collaboration with the teachers of the Special Education Service. In this way, the research aims to present a DS of human anatomy content as an educational resource that can help science teachers in their training and optimize lessons for better inclusion of students with ASD