ACCESS TO PERMANENCE: THE POLICY OF INCLUSION TO BLIND STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN UFRN
Policy of inclusion. Visual impairment. Prejudice. Higher Education.
The paper analyzes the policy of inclusion to blind students in higher education brazilian examinating the process that involves the access and permanence of this students at UFRN graduation courses. In this sense, is examined the place of inclusive policy for blind students, identifying their difficulties and challenges as well as the systematization of the socioeconomic profile of these students. In addition, is made reflections about the history of people with disabilities throughout Western history, in order to understand how the State and society understand and recognize the these people. It points out that it is from the modern conception of universal rights that this old perception is rejected in exchange for the notion of equity. We also analyzed the educational policies already developed in Brazil aimed at people with specific needs with an emphasis on people with visual impairment. For this purpose, a qualitative research guided by the dialectical and applied conception through the use of documentary research, observation, semi-structured interviews and theoretical foundation on the subject in question was verified in this study. The universe of the analysis was 05 (five) blind students enrolled in the courses of Dance, Hospital Management, Management in Health Services, History and Music of the face-to-face graduation of the Central Campus of this institution, in the period from 2012 to 2015. The results of this study Indicate that the attitudinal barriers of the academic community are still the greatest difficulties regarding the permanence and completion of courses attended by these students. Considering the category disability as a socially erected premise, through a standard of normality constituted by a sociability that confers to the disability a place of exclusion and prejudice. Thus, the mentioned study does not pretend to exhaust the thematic about the policy of inclusion of blind students of UFRN, but to subsidize future studies