Avaliação do processo de implementação do Programa Incluir na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (2012-2014)

Abstract

This thesis is a part of the public policies evaluation. It is demarcated as study object the Include Program: accesibility in higher education, being guided by the following research question: How the Include Program is being implemented at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)? It established as (general) objective to evaluate the process of implementation of the Include Program at UFRN, and as specific objectives: to identify the factors that facilitate and the factors that obstruct the implementation of the Include Program, and that condition the achievement of its objectives at UFRN; to know the services, resources and technical support existing and made available by the Include Program in the perspective of enabling the educational inclusion of disabled students in this IFES; to detect barriers (architectural, pedagogical, communication and information and attitudinal) that hinder the implementation process of the Include Program at UFRN; to identify the implementation strategies of the Include Program in this IFES. The hypothesis enunciated to guide the study stated that the Include Program implements resources, services, technical support that minimize architectural, pedagogical and communication and information barriers, partially enabling the educational inclusion of disabled students in UFRN. The methodological procedures used to reach the proposed objective consisted of literature review, documentary research, systematic observation and field research. The qualitative research used for the data collection semistructured interview applied to the constituent subjects of the sample frame, namely: students with physical, auditory, visual, intellectual and multiple disabilities; teachers; president and technicians of the Permanent Commission to Support Students with Special Needs (CAENE); and scholarship holders and monitor. The thesis concludes that the implementation process of the Include Program at UFRN provides technical support, a LIBRAS interpreter service, pedagogical resources in an accessible format, systematic financial resources, which, together with a set of institutional strategies, such as creation of norms related to educational inclusion, Installation of accessibility laboratories, provision of assistive technologies, materialization of intra-institutional partnerships, support of the Rectory, are factors that facilitate the implementation process of the Include Program. Besides, we find disproportionality in the production, adaptation and availability of pedagogical didactic resources in relation to the types of disability, a lack of awareness/invisibility in the Include Program, multiplicity of objectives, different target audience from the official document, underestimation of the participation of teachers in the condition of (in)direct implementers of the Program, witch, together with the technical opinion formalism issued by CAENE, without proper mediation between CAENE technicians, teachers and course coordinators, shows what we have classified as a bureaucratic barrier. This coexists with the remaining attitudinal, infrastructure, pedagogical and communication and information barriers. These factors are inscribed as obstacles to the implementation of the Include Program at UFRN. Notwithstanding to this, we can infer that the Include Program contributes to the vocational training course and the partial participation of disabled academics in UFRN.