Banca de DEFESA: MARCELLY DE SOUZA NASCIMENTO

INCLUSION OF THE TARGET AUDIENCE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE OF THE ACCESSIBILITY CENTERS OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES OF THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO: POLICIES, CULTURES AND PRACTICES

Inclusion; Accessibility; Higher Education; Disabled Studen

This dissertation has as object of investigation the inclusion of the Target Public of Special Education in Higher Education through the institutional performance of the Accessibility Centers of the Federal Universities of Rio de Janeiro, which are: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/UFRJ; Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro/ UNIRIO; Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro/ UFRRJ; and University Federal Fluminense/UFF. In this way, we will discuss how Federal Universities are organizing their institutional actions through the Accessibility Centers to guarantee the process of inclusion of people with disabilities in Higher Education. To this end, we characterize the political-pedagogical performance of the Accessibility Centers as a support system for students with disabilities and the identification of actions carried out in these spaces with reference to cultures, policies and institutional practices that aim to promote access, permanence and the conclusion. As a result of the institutional activities of the Accessibility Centers, some questions arise: how has access, permanence and completion of students with disabilities in Higher Education been structured? What impacts are observed in the creation/restructuring of the Accessibility Centers? What political-pedagogical actions do the Centers offer to guarantee the inclusion process?In order for these questions to be reached, we will have a dialogue with the coordinators of the Centers to understand what are the on-site observations of these professionals about the inclusion process. Furthermore, we will also have a dialogue with students with disabilities from the investigated Universities, with the aim of analyzing the perspective of these subjects on the inclusion process and on the performance of the Accessibility Centers. The theoretical-methodological approach of the study was based on the linkages between the Onminiletic Approach and the Critical Theory of Society considering the duality between exclusion/inclusion and on the three-dimensionality between cultures, policies and practices. The partial results obtained were: of the four universities analyzed, three have an accessibility nucleus or competent body (UFF; UFRJ; UFRRJ). With regard to the institutional inclusion policy UFF and UNIRIO have a consolidated inclusion policy, UFRRJ is in the process of implementing the policy and UFRJ, although some institutional documents indicate the existence of a policy, it was not available until the analyzed period. Regarding institutional actions, the four Universities have developed actions of physical structure (adaptations, works, etc.) and of human structure (lectures, workshops, student reception, etc.)