Abstract

SELAU, Bento; DAMIANI, Magda Floriana  and  COSTAS, Fabiane Adela Tonetto. Blind students in higher education: what to do with possible obstacles?. Acta Scientiarum. Education [online]. 2017, vol.39, n.4, pp.431-440. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v39i4.28915.

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.

Keywords : Educational Psychology; Higher Education; Special Education.

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