(1532) INCLUSION OF DISABLED STUDENTS INTO HIGHER EDUCATION: THE CASE OF THE COMPUTER SCIENCE SCHOOL OF THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LA PLATA

摘要

Education democracy gains depth when knowledge distribution honors the diversity of the individualsinvolved, who have a right to receive their formation in the public sphere. Education is a human rightnon-transferrable by the State, which is responsible for guaranteeing its full application to all citizens.The public university committed to this unavoidable right must deploy strategies and policies thatgenerate the right conditions and encourage the construction of inclusive institutions where socialindividuals become integrated and involved and transform their world as they are transformed by it,beyond social, economic, physical and cultural conditions, among others. The process of constructingan inclusive university needs to identify cultural, pedagogical and institutional practices, both implicitand explicit, that will contribute in the construction of a more participative, inclusive and fair society.This paper will focus on the Computer Science School of the UNLP which, with over fifteen newstudents presenting difficulties such as blindness, Pervasive Development Disorder (PDD), AspergerSyndrome, deafness and impaired hearing, among others, generated scenario that challenged andtested the Institution itself as a whole, causing it to react in the face of diversity with concrete actionsthat would favor inclusion. It will be described in detail the series of inclusion policies that have beenapplied at the Computer Science School since 2010, as well as present the difficulties, tensions andresistances encountered in this transformation process that place obstacles in the path towards thefinal establishment of a public and inclusive school as devised.