O ATENDIMENTO EDUCACIONAL ESPECIALIZADO NA EDUCAÇÃO SUPERIOR

Abstract

The inclusion of students with disabilities in Higher Education faced impediments due to issues related to exclusion, prejudice and alienating inclusion. Said inclusion is a current phenomenon, present in the discussions of researchers in the area of Special Education. In this research, we aim to analyze how the public and private higher education institutions (HEI) in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul organize themselves to offer the students with disabilities, high abilities and giftedness. The research used documentary, exploratory, descriptive analytic methodology from the perspective of Cultural Historical Theory based on dialectical historical materialism. The question that led to our discussions was how public and private universities were configured to offer the Specialize Educational Assistance (SEA) for those students in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. For the elaboration of the research, we used structured instruments such as questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, documentary analysis, and exploratory research on participating HEI sites. As a result, we analyzed that, although the HEIs are looking for adaptation, it is still required a lot of struggle to get out of what we refer to as the alienating SEA towards a SEA that aims to include and not exclude, being part of the training curriculum for incoming teachers, colleges, universities and of the Institutional Development Plans, aimed at changing the institutional culture of the universities and being on the technical training plans to carry out this service with a view to inclusion in a way that it does not keep itself just a part of the inclusion discourse.