Jovens com deficiência como sujeitos de direitos: o exercício da autoadvocacia como caminho para o empoderamento e a participação social

• Autor(a) principal: Dantas, Taísa Caldas
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/4651
• topic: Autoadvocacia; Empoderamento; Jovens Com Deficiência; Sujeito de Direitos; Selfadvocacy; Empowerment; People with Disabilities; Citizens; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

The aim of this study is to analyze the exercise of selfadvocacy in people with disabilities and how it can influence the development of citizenship in their lives. Historically, people with disabilities have been immersed in a continuous process of social exclusion and denial of their rights, mainly as regards the rights to have voice and participation in the society. Selfadvocacy is a worldwide movement that emerged in the 60s in order to struggle against this historical oppression experienced by disabled people. This movement means the action or expression of the voice of a person or group of people in his own name, without intervention of other people, in the fight for their rights and in communication of their wishes. The main argument of this study is that the access of people with disabilities in groups of selfadvocacy provides empowerment and breaks the cycle of impossibilities present in their lives. This research is insert in the knowledge´s field of Cultural Studies of Education and adopts the methodology of oral history, in the model life history. Based on this methodology we considered the voice of young people with disabilities, which has been empowered and nowadays they can live as citizens. Through the method of oral history, it was possible to reconstruct the past events and to understood how young people with disabilities practices selfadvocacy and which ways and processes through which they passed to become who they are today: young selfadvocates. These research findings shows that these young people and adults from different regional contexts, social and economic levels, to become empowered through various opportunities that they have been exposed and now they practice selfadvocacy, which is revealed in the following components in your life: awareness of her value as human; her individual qualities and potencial; her participation in many social fields, like universities, workspace, leisure groups, social networks, etc; knowledge about their rights and responsabilities; participation in groups or associations that study and discuss about the philosophy af selfadvocacy.