Higher Education, disability and work in postgraduate research in the period from 2008 to 2019

• Main Author: Trentin, Valéria Becher
• Publication Date: 2021
• Other Authors: Raitz, Tânia Regina
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Revista Educação Especial (UFSM)
• Download full: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/educacaoespecial/article/view/65766
• topic: Higher Education; Work; Disabled person.; Educación Superior; Trabajo; Persona discapacitada.; Educação Superior; Trabalho; Pessoa com deficiência.

With the Enactment of the Special Education Policy in the Inclusive Education Perspective (2008), which highlights the narrowing between Education and Special Education, the inclusion movement that has expanded in basic education in recent years, is also evident      reaching also the Higher Education, subsidized by legal regulations, thus increasing the number of people with disabilities who claim the right to enter and stay in universities. Entry into higher education and the participation of people with disabilities in the world of work, is a field of complexities and challenges that comprise the relationship between education and work. This article aims to investigate the dissertations and theses carried out in Brazil, after the promulgation of the Special Education Policy from the perspective of Inclusive Education (2008), which relate the schooling of people with disabilities in Higher Education to work. To collect the data, research was carried out on the bases of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and the Digital Bank of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD). In the searches carried out, the following descriptors were used: higher education; deficiency; inclusion and work. The research found points in its results to the predominance of reports about the fragility of higher education in offering academic content effectively related to the labor market. It was also evident that the theme is new and presents scarce literature, making it not only nationally relevant, but also important for universities, professors, researchers in the area, public policy agents and society as a whole.