Abstract

MENDONCA, Tatiana de Araujo; FERNANDES, Edicléa Mascarenhas; ORRICO, Hélio Ferreira  and  QUEIROZ, Paulo Pires De. Awareness of law: route of access to the citizenship of the person with disability. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2020, vol.45, 36282.  Epub June 16, 2023. ISSN 1984-6444.  https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644436282.

This paper addresses the issue of the inclusion of person with disability in the social environment. It was managed through a pedagogical tool aimed to remediate the aspects related to the lack of awareness and knowledge of the own disabled person of their citizenship rights protected by law. It is based on the insufficient political motivation of decision makers regarding these issues, in the community general lack of prepare to directly influence and relate in a profitable way and in the fragile disposition of the own person with disability to fight for the rights already granted to them by law. For that, bases itself on a pedagogical bias to offer a course focused on the relevant historical, philosophical and sociological literature and also in the knowledge of the specific law aiming a better comprehension of the exclusion social framework of this reality that seeks to remediate. Specifically, the course arises from research whose outcome may contribute to a perspective of change in the attitudes and behaviors that support the person with disability’s social model of nowadays. The program elaborated based in a set of contents obtained throught the research developed was approved by its users after testing, achieving, furthermore, impact inside Brazil and abroad, which allows to assume that its objectives have been directed.

Keywords : PwD; law; citizenship.

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