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Person with a disability. Reservation of vacancies. College Education.
In this work, we investigate the inclusion of people with disabilities (handicapped) in College Education regarding the vacancy reservation system. Our general objective is to analyze the implementation of the reservation of places for people with disabilities in College Education at Federal Institutions of College Education in the State of Rio Grande do Norte. For this, we analyzed the selection processes organization, the concept of disability that guides the actions and the number of enrollments made before and after the policy for booking vacancies. We start with the hypothesis that, although federal institutions establish the reservation of places through the same law, they organize their processes in a different way and do not use the same validation criteria of people with disabilities for the reservation of places, in way to cause legal inconsistency. To carry out this study, we opted for critical research with a qualitative approach, however, using quantitative data to support our discussions. As it is a recent law, our research is exploratory through a study of multiple cases, investigating the three Federal Institutions of College Education of Rio Grande do Norte state, which are the Rio Grande do Norte Federal University, Semi-Árido Federal Rural University and Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte. We used information collected from different sources, namely: systematic literature review, document analysis and questionnaire, allowing for the triangulation of the obtained data. The systematic review allowed us to observe the lack of expressiveness in the number of studies that deal with the access of people with disabilities to College Education. The literature points out the complexity of the concept of disability, which has an evolutionary character, modified throughout history, but coexisting with different perceptions. We also found that College Education has a level of excluding historical roots not only for people with disabilities, but for the population in general. Some policies and programs have changed this scenario, but it is still far from ideal. As a result, we observed the difficulty of overcoming the medical model of disability definition and the proof of our thesis, pointing to the need for standardization between institutions regarding the eligibility criteria for the reservation of vacancies for people with disabilities, as well as more adequate training for the members of the validation boards.