Inclusion higher education. The words and experiences within the process

Abstract

Inclusion is a social and political principle built around the ideal of equality that was embodied in the recognition of equity and ensuring access to opportunities. Education, at different levels of coverage, it is a bridge connecting both aspects. Inclusive education is a process of transformation and accompaniment in which people are formed independently, quality and participation, despite the diversity. This study is part of a line of research that seeks through the use of qualitative methodology phenomenological approach, understand from the speech of eleven students with disabilities and six teachers, how it is unfolding the entry of these in the spaces a public institution of higher education in Venezuela. For this, the semi-structured interview was used content analysis through Atlas. Ti and triangulation of data. They came four categories of analysis (“income” “physical and mental disabilities, an indissoluble line”, “I was told” and “I left out”). The findings set out a shared vision among stakeholders about the juridical equality on the issue of income, but in the case of conditional upon the requirement of an exhibition of a guarantee of success and assisted career choice teachers. practices of exclusion and discrimination were reported in income, which intangible happen in relationships that are established internally and need to be revised. The greatest difficulties appear are around the prosecution and not on income. Both actors agree on the vision of a welfare and income demanding institution, but neglected in the accompaniment and the transformation that should characterize a process of inclusive education.