THE ACCESS OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND ITS RELATION WHITH THE EXISTING SOCIETY PROJECT

Abstract

This article, of an essyistic character, aims to discuss the access to Higher Education for people with disabilities in Brazil. It discusses the existing barriers to the access, the permanence and the conclusion of the demanded course as well as the proportion of less than half per cent of students with disabilities in Higher Education. It also debates the culture of ‘ability’ which submits disabled people to the false conception of equality of opportunities. In addition, the present paper discusses the implementation of the Decree Number 9,034/2017 in which the Federal Government changes the rules of the quota program of Federal Universities and Institutes and includes people with disabilities in the list of students entitled to places in these institutions. In relation to the opening of the Federal Institutions of Higher Education this article considers it crucial that they organize efforts to guarantee the accessibility and the staying of disabled people who have a right to the scientific and universal knowledge appropriation throughout their studying process. Along with such understanding this paper proposes that the spaces which are based on an inclusive materiality constitute one more counterhegemonic instrument of struggle for building favorable environments in order to achieve equality of conditions and opportunities for knowledge accessibility historically produced for disabled people. Finally it alerts to the fact that it will be necessary to understand that the difficulties related to the inclusion and exclusion contradiction extrapolates the issue of disability since it perceives that the direct relationship is towards the existing society project.