Um estudo sobre a realidade da inclusão de pessoas com deficiência na educação superior no Paraná.

Abstract

This study integrates the discussions shown in the Master's thesis in Education, in which it was analyzed the disabled students inclusion in the Higher Education, emphasizing the access, staying and learning issues, seeking to understand the inclusion process of these students in Higher Education Institutions in Umuarama City, in Parana Northwest region. For study, enrolled students, concluding and dropout were interviewed, from 2008 to 2014. Analytical, descriptive, qualitative/quantitative research presuppositions were used to be considered appropriated in understanding the participants' life in their university routine, trying to identify, by analysis of data from interviews, the guidelines of this study. The bibliographic basis is of the authors who talk about disabled people education and the educational inclusion in Higher Education. The study shows as study meaning units the difficulties and challenges faced by disable people in Higher Education specially referring to the teaching and learning process, prejudiced situations and accessibility aspects, as well as, the importance of the family participation in academic life, like fundamental elements to the stay or dropout of these students in the Higher Education Institutions (HEI).