Vinhetas de uma experiência com a inclusão na universidade e a formação em saúde.

Abstract

The inclusion of people with disabilities in higher education is a relevant topic today. This work is research with a qualitative approach that aims to reflect on inclusive education based on the experience of an extension project at a public university. Inclusive education at the Education and Health Center at the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG) brings together a set of actions such as student assistance policy organized and developed by professionals from the Accessibility and Inclusion Center (NAI), as well as with partners and institutional projects in extension and research. NAI professionals, together with students, professionals from different sectors and areas of the academic community and the general population, developed an extension project entitled "Chat about Inclusive Education". This work deals with the experiences and perceptions of one of the undergraduate nutrition students who actively participated in 2021. The objective of this work was to describe and analyze the experiences and learning obtained during active participation in this project, which had as its main focus promote relevant discussions about the importance of educational and social inclusion of people with disabilities. The methodology to meet the objectives was the production of everyday vignettes (which are authorial texts on how the author/researcher perceives, reflects and understands lived experiences) based on the exercise of participant observation, referring to everyday experiences. This method of recording and analysis was due to its qualitative nature, which allows for detailed exploration of experiences in different situations and contexts. In the extension project, activities were developed such as spaces for debates to raise awareness and information about the inclusion of students with disabilities, global developmental disorders and high abilities or giftedness in the academic context with the entire community. Undergraduate students from different courses at the Center for Education and Health participated in the extension. The project, starting in July 2021, through online moments, then hybrid ones and moving on to face-to-face moments, addressed the topics through conversation circles and multimedia strategy inclusive way and addressing the themes. The everyday vignettes: Vignette 1 - The importance of inclusive education in higher education; Vignette 2 - Ableism and the ethics that guide me: a process of awareness; Vignette 3: What do I want technology for?; Vignette 4: Prejudice; Vignette 5: Elucidating an experience. This experience broadened the perspectives within health and nutrition training, with the identification of challenges to the inclusion of people with disabilities in the academic field, giving the chance to recognize the problems by the different subjects involved, including from an institutional perspective. The themes of prejudice and recognition of rights helped to identify how changes are necessary and significant for everyone involved. In this way, inclusion is an important, transformative theme and refers to the adjustment of social systems to respect human diversity, requiring the active collaboration of people and institutions. Projects like this help in the training of more humanized professionals who are attentive to equity.