Blind students in higher education: what to do with possible obstacles?

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v39i4.28915

Keywords:

Educational Psychology, Higher Education, Special Education.

Abstract

This study analyzed the obstacles or difficulties faced by blind people in higher education, proposing some strategies that can be undertaken by managers and teachers to overcome such obstacles to their inclusion. The study was anchored in a qualitative approach, taking the form of case studies, which initially aimed to identify which were the obstacles faced by the research subjects: eight blind people, five male and three female. Data were collected through narrative interviews and analyzed through a discursive textual process. The findings showed the existence of the following obstacles, and possible strategies were proposed to overcome them: 1) institutional, having as a strategy investing in admission process and permanence of the blind student in the university; 2) concerning the relationships with teachers, having as a strategy the adoption of pedagogies consistent with the inclusion of blind students in higher education.

 

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Author Biographies

  • Bento Selau, Universidade Federal do Pampa
    Doutor em Educação pela Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brasil. Coordenador do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal do Pampa. Líder do Grupo de pesquisa educação inclusiva e defectologia de Vygotski
  • Magda Floriana Damiani, Universidade Federal de Pelotas
    Doutora em Educação pela University of London, UL, Inglaterra. Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Pelotas. Líder do Grupo de pesquisa Educação e Psicologia Histórico-cultural
  • Fabiane Adela Tonetto Costas, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
    Doutorado em Educação pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Líder do Grupo de estudos e pesquisas em Psicologia da Educação e Educação Inclusiva- GEPEIN

Published

2017-09-01

Issue

Section

Teachers' Formation and Public Policy

How to Cite

Blind students in higher education: what to do with possible obstacles?. (2017). Acta Scientiarum. Education, 39(4), 431-440. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v39i4.28915

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