Estudo da autoadvocacia e do empoderamento de pessoas com deficiência no Brasil e no Canadá

• Autor(a) principal: Dantas, Taísa Caldas
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/4803
• topic: Pessoas com deficiência; Autoadvocacia; Empoderamento; Brasil; Canadá; People with disabilities; Self-advocacy; Empowerment; Brazil; Canada; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

This study is focused on the global political and collective-individual reality of people with disabilities in Brazil and Canada education. Your objective is to analyze from the perspective of human rights, individual experiences, systems (laws, policies, guidelines) and social attitudes that contribute (or don't) to the process of empowerment and selfadvocacy in people's lives with disabilities in the two countries. The story illuminates that is not today that the experiences of exclusion mark the life of the social group, consists of people with disabilities, who remains in a situation of intense social disadvantage. The international movement of people with deficiency has been highlighting the urgent need to guarantee human rights to citizenship and social participation of this group. The central argument of this study is that access to formal and informal educational, processes forms the basis for the experience of human rights and promotes the construction of a process of empowerment and the experience of selfadvocacy, breaking the cycle of impossibilities installed early in their lives. This research falls within the field of knowledge Cultural Studies in Education, from which the theoretical-methodological approach was based on precisely 'fluidity' advertisement by post modernity and adhered to the qualitative research approach, based on interviews of twenty-eight people with deficiencies in different contexts from Brazil and Canada. The analysis of reality between two different countries was an important factor to analyze because it became the basis for the identification of the elements that contribute to the empowerment and selfadvocacy of people with disabilities with emphasis on the social and economic arrangements of each reality. The findings of this research have shown that people with disabilities have been modifying their realities through their life stories and in addition to overcome their situations of oppression, their actions are decisive in the lives of others. These are undoubtedly situations that illustrate the major benefits of self-advocacy and empowerment for social change, regardless of political systems, cultural contexts and life chances. The selfadvocacy empowerment and thus help to break with a tradition of silencing and submission to the legal standards imposed vertically and mostly subjective norms in daily relationships.