Abstract
Research on people with disabilities can create, per times, strangeness and discomfort. However, it is necessary to encourage and bring to the fore debates about how the lives of people with disabilities in society are thought. In this sense, this special issue brings to our readers original articles on relevant topics in health sciences and sports for people with disabilities. Within this large area, the reader can go through themes such as: public policies for people with disabilities; social and sports programs for people with disabilities; physical activity and health for people with disabilities; high performance sports for people with disabilities; technological innovations in favour of new teaching-learning processes for people with disabilities; universities and their role in training human resources to work with people with disabilities; disabilities, women and sports; the media's view on the disability and the para-athlete; and the social legacy of the sport for people with disabilities. In this section we also bring a presentation of the Brazilian Journal of Education, Technology and Society (BRAJETS) and its main evaluation processes for the publication of scientific articles. We invite all our readers to check out this special issue which was prepared and written by researchers and professors with expertise in sport to people with disabilities studies. We wish you an enjoyable reading!
Highlights
Persons with disabilities is a theme that is surrounded by discomfort and insecurity, for the society as well as for the academic community
To open space for this discussion is a strategy to inform and qualify the academic society about the challenges to depict the efficiency behind the disability, and to foster the good will promotion that occurs in different contexts
These good will actions should be the corner stone for public policies that serve the specific interests of this big part of the society, which approximately 24% of the Brazilian society (IBGE, 2012) and over one billion people in the world (WHO, 2011), which is needy for long-term effective actions, and not just short-term actions
Summary
Persons with disabilities is a theme that is surrounded by discomfort and insecurity, for the society as well as for the academic community. Recurrent accessibility and urban mobility problems and facility adaptations to a more harmonic interaction of people with disabilities in the society, opens the channel to debate a different respectful look to this theme This society egalitarian applies to same opportunities, conditions and developing possibilities in relation to good health, good knowledge domain, economic security level and good social relations. To open space for this discussion is a strategy to inform and qualify the academic society about the challenges to depict the efficiency behind the disability, and to foster the good will promotion that occurs in different contexts (associations, schools, universities, cities, state or countries) These good will actions should be the corner stone for public policies that serve the specific interests of this big part of the society, which approximately 24% of the Brazilian society (IBGE, 2012) and over one billion people in the world (WHO, 2011), which is needy for long-term effective actions, and not just short-term actions. The others issues (2nd, 3rd and 4th) had wide-ranging discussions with a focus on Education and Technology in the contemporaneity (Curcio & Barros, 2017)
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