<b>Estudantes cegos na educação superior: o que fazer com os possíveis obstáculos?

Bento Selau; Magda Floriana Damiani; Fabiane Adela Tonetto Costas

doi:10.4025/actascieduc.v39i4.28915

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

Bento Selau Universidade Federal do Pampa http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5792-0284
Magda Floriana Damiani Universidade Federal de Pelotas http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3904-8856
Fabiane Adela Tonetto Costas Universidade Federal de Santa Maria http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3698-2782

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

How to Cite

Selau, B., Damiani, M. F., & Costas, F. A. T. (2017). <b>Blind students in higher education: what to do with possible obstacles?. Acta Scientiarum. Education, 39(4), 431-440. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v39i4.28915

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Issue

Vol 39 No 4 (2017): Oct.-Dec.

Section

Teachers' Formation and Public Policy

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