O aluno com deficiência no ensino superior: prática inclusiva na Universidade do Estado do Pará

Abstract

This work, presented here, seeks to bring aspects related to the inclusion of people with disabilities in higher education. To include is to contextualize, it is to encompass what is not part of a group, its practices and experiences. Within universities, inclusion must treat differences with equality, conquering its space within the academic universe. Despite the lack of specific resources, over the last few years, universities already have strategies to guarantee the access of disabled students to higher education, although there are still few strategies facing the dimensions of the problem. The present study aims to understand the methodological strategies that higher education teachers use in facing barriers to access to knowledge by students with disabilities, with a view to permanence and academic success. In addition, the aim is to know the methodologies used with disabled students in higher education, identify the teaching methodologies used by teachers with disabled students at the State University of Pará and verify which tools are used with disabled students in higher education and success in inclusion process. The research is qualitative-quantitative, exploratory in character; the study enables a broad explanation of the problem. As a data collection instrument, a semi-structured interview script was used, in which the processing was all involved in the transcription of the interview from oral to written form. The research sample consisted of five participants, two professors and three students from the University of the State of Pará. The data after collection were analyzed and presented by categories and, later, the results and discussion were presented. As a final product, an informative booklet was prepared, containing guidelines and suggestions for tools to be used with higher education students who have a disability, facilitating the process of including students in the academic sphere. Higher education institutions can incorporate several important actions not only in relation to students with disabilities, but also in the training of professionals with an inclusive vision, since, once the laws are in place, it would actually be enough to put them into effect. It is expected that the resulting product can contribute to the teaching work of the University of the State of Pará, the research field of this study.