Percepción de los estudiantes de la Facultad de Psicología sobre prácticas, políticas y culturas inclusivas

Abstract

The process to guarantee that education is a common good for everyone without any kind of exclusion is known as ¨Educational Inclusion¨. This process seeks give an answer to the diversity of needs to all students at different educational levels. In the higher education the topics about inclusion are not abundant compared to the levels of basic education. The objective of the research was to describe the perception of students of the Psychology field about practices, policies and inclusive cultures. The present study used a quantitative approach, with a non-experimental cross-sectional design. The population is integrated of 241 students enrolled in the academic period September 2018 - February 2019, from sixth to tenth cycle in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Cuenca. For data collection, we use the questionnaire Index for Inclusion by Booth y Ainscow, using the Spanish version context for higher education by Salceda and Ibáñez. Among the results, it was found that the students are agree about the dimensions of practices and inclusive cultures, about inclusive policies most students are disagree. According to the cycle, it was found that participants from the sixth to the eighth cycle notice in a positive way the practices, policies and inclusive cultures, unlike the last two cycles.