Portuguese New State Special Education

Since 1936, Portuguese New State with Carneiro Pacheco Reform, gives a New Insight for Handicapped People Teaching but erasing features of notable history of Centenarian Casa Pia professional teaching. Before, at 1935, Salazar New State does a profound reform of Social Assistance, charging his General Director, Braga Paixao, to prepare and execute it. Then at Casa Pia were concentrated all Educational Establishment and Social Assistance supervised by Assistance General Office: with each of this institutions being considered a Lisbon Casa Pia section. Pedro Campos Tavares assume after Braga Paixao the post of provedor or administrator of Casa Pia since 1942 until 1956. He make transformation of technical curriculum in rupture with traditional high emphasis on physical education and so was not well received by some critics. But, he make it with general applause of Casa Pia pupils that highly valuate his efforts to give professional instruction in new profession like watchmaking and its reparation valuing his high employability in labour market. Pedro Campos Tavares, a mathematics teacher, with a long career of rector at various lyceums that begins at Guarda, where he introduce innovations in mathematics teaching influenced by Ernst R. Breslich where we can find the textbook “Problems in Teaching Secondary-School Mathematics”. On account of this, he wrote many text-books for mathematics teaching. During this period and after he visits English Schools for Deaf Pupils and also went to some Congresses about deaf teaching and take acquaintance of Irene and Alex Ewing practices as lip-reading, a preparation to deaf language learning as an effective manner to be successful included within normal classes. That is a manner of progressively introduce new ideas for deaf inclusion and success in Portugal, asking also for research at university about this aspect with real effects in School creations in Portugal, particularly in University of Coimbra area of influence. He also introduce research practices about deaf and blind teaching at Casa Pia. After 1956 he returns to Secondary Teaching but was quickly charged as Portuguese government consultant to study deaf and blind teaching problems, receiving financial support to study schooling process of handicapped pupils, contributing to a chapter about Portugal in “Special Education of Physically Handicapped Children in Western Europe”, organized by Wallace Taylor, professor of Education at State University of New-York, Albany. Simultaneously he study innovative Mathematics Teaching Methodology integrated in OECE project, preparing transformation of mathematical teaching within Educational at 1960 years, but his main sector of study continued to be Special Education. At all studies he introduce Portugal in International Movements for Teaching Special and Normal Children, pertaining also to Committee on Special Education da International Society for Rehabilitation of the Disabled, but his insight was radically disapproved by Irene Leite da Costa, but without consequences for general disapproval of his ideas that continue to be implement. But, his work, on account of Portuguese lack Political Liberties suffers with Portugal exclusion from educational international organizations.