UFRN Laboratories: Didactic Elements and Accessible Practical Classes
disabled person; practical classes laboratories; teacher training
As of 2017, a significant increase in the enrollment of students with disabilities in higher education, due to the growth of public policies and regulations which seek to guarantee access for all to education and, consequently, to higher education. In the context of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) it is no different, there is an increase in the number of students with Specific Educational Needs (SEN) assisted by the Secretariat for Inclusion and Accessibility (SIA) of UFRN: 31 (thirty and one) students in 2017 to 102 (one hundred and two) in 2018. In this sense, this work focuses on the study of the accessibility/inclusion difficulties of students with SEN on the UFRN FACISA campus in practical laboratory classes that occur in their undergraduate courses. This is a qualitative research with an exploratory and descriptive character, whose general objective is to identify, in the context of practical classes in laboratories at UFRN, which didactic elements contribute to accessible teaching. The specific objectives are: to identify the perceptions of professors, technicians and students who use UFRN laboratories about resources/didactic materials used that contribute to accessible pedagogical practice, as well as to raise training needs, from the perspective of laboratory users, for the development of an accessible pedagogical practice, and, finally, to elaborate a formative proposal for the development of accessible pedagogical practices in laboratories, based on the survey of the demands of professors, technicians and students at UFRN. In order to reach the objectives, we will visit the research locus, the Faculty of Health Sciences of Trairi (FACISA), carrying out observation as well as semi-structured interviews with professors, students, laboratory users, laboratory technicians on the campus, totaling nine participants. In the end, we hope to discuss the didactic elements that contribute to accessible teaching in laboratories, contributing to the training of teachers who teach practical classes in these spaces, in addition to strengthening the inclusive policy within UFRN.