Accessibility challenges in higher education: case study in University of Aveiro
This paper presents a case study conducted with the Pedagogical Cabinet of the University of Aveiro (Portugal) aiming to find out in an educational institution, of a first world country, what a higher education institution has been done to the students with disabilities proceed in study, achieving t...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | Educação |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/24686 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/faced/article/view/24686 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Accessibility. Inclusion. Students with disabilities. Higher education. Accesibilidad. Inclusión. Alumnos con discapacidades. Enseñanza superior. Acessibilidade. Inclusão. Alunos com deficiência. Ensino superior. |
| Sumario: | This paper presents a case study conducted with the Pedagogical Cabinet of the University of Aveiro (Portugal) aiming to find out in an educational institution, of a first world country, what a higher education institution has been done to the students with disabilities proceed in study, achieving the graduation and post-graduation levels. This study enabled to verify that the bigger challenges in accessibility are related to personal attitude, promoting inclusion, and the possibility of having a flexible learning, independent of time and space. The result also confirms the World Health Organization (WHO) statistics, showing that although slow, the number os students with disabilities searching for education in graduation and professional specialization levels is growing. |
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