Concepts of disability in university students: studies in distinct international contexts

• Grant number: 17/12721-5
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2018
• End date: July 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Specific topics in Education
• Principal Investigator: Lúcia Pereira Leite
• Grantee: Lúcia Pereira Leite
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências (FC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Bauru. Bauru , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Anabel Moriña Díez ; António Manuel da Conceição Guerreiro ; Beatriz Morgado Camacho ; Cláudia Cristina Guerreiro Luísa ; Cristina Broglia Feitosa de Lacerda ; Elsie Alejandrina Perez Serrano ; Hugo Ferrari Cardoso ; Leonardo Santos Amâncio Cabral ; Maria Helena Venâncio Martins ; Maria Leonor Borges ; Marta Gracia Garcia ; Sandra Eli Sartoreto de Oliveira Martins
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/04696-3 - Concepts of disability in university students: studies in distinct international contexts, BP.TT

Abstract

Public universities, as social institutions, must spread inclusive actions - amid that, those destined to people with disabilities. However, current societies have favored patterns which value productivity and perfection, rather than the respect to the difference. In different contexts, it is still common to recognize several achievements in legal terms; however, excluding precepts and actions are equally present in social relations and discourses, strictly placing the disability in the organism which has it. Then, this network research aims to: (a) portray how the disability is described and understood in four distinct university contexts; (b) identify how Brazilian, Portuguese, Cuban and Spanish university students position themselves in the face of utterances which portray different concepts of disability, from the applying of the Disability Concept Scale (ECD); (c) compare results obtained among students of the different participant universities (Unesp, UFSCar, University of Algarve/Portugal, University of Holguín/Cuba, University of Seville/Spain e University of Barcelona/Spain); (d) analyze relations among choices of positioning according to some variables, such as: area of practice and/or training; attended course; enrollment period (freshman or senior); age and gender among the sample student groups, considering similarities and differences among the participant countries. Therefore, this research will offer perceptual indicators in relation to a numerically significant population segment, mainly with regard to affirmative policies which adopt protective actions on behalf of the human diversity. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MARIA LEONOR BORGES; MARIA HELENA MARTINS; ANTÓNIO GUERREIRO; LÚCIA PEREIRA LEITE; CLÁUDIA LUÍSA. Conceções de deficiência em estudantes do Ensino Superior: estudo exploratório na Universidade do Algarve.. Análise Social, n. 245, p. 704-725, 2022-12-31. (17/12721-5)

LÚCIA PEREIRA LEITE; LEONARDO SANTOS AMÂNCIO CABRAL; CRISTINA BROGLIA FEITOSA DE LACERDA. Concepções sobre deficiência em instituições públicas e privadas da Educação Superior. Ensaio: Avaliação e Políticas Públicas em Educação, 2022-11-14. (17/12721-5)

LÚCIA PEREIRA LEITE; HUGO FERRARI CARDOSO; TAIZE DE OLIVEIRA. Escala Intercultural de Concepções de Deficiência: Construção e Estudos Psicométricos. Rev. bras. educ. espec., v. 27, 2021-07-23. (18/04696-3, 17/12721-5)