Who and where are the higher education blind students in Brazil?

• Autor(a) principal: Teixeira, Margareth de Oliveira Olegario
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Nierotka, Rosileia Lucia, Balsanello, Geomara, Bonamino, Alicia Maria Catalano de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Educação Especial (UFSM)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/educacaoespecial/article/view/65373
• topic: Estudantes cegos; Ensino Superior; Perfil sociodemográfico; Blind students; Higher Education; Sociodemographic profile; Estudiantes ciegos; Enseñanza superior; Perfil sociodemográfico

Understanding the profile and the institutional and academic aspects that involve blind students in higher education is truly relevant for reflecting on the effectiveness of affirmative policies and to promote actions concerning specialized care to this public. The article is a quantitative, exploratory study based on secondary data from the 2018 Census of Higher Education (CenSup) microdata. It describes the profile and insertion of blind students in public and private Brazilian Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) according to sociodemographic and institutional characteristics. We analyzed the data on descriptive statistics. In 2018, 2,537 blind students had enrolled, 37.8% in public HEIs and 62.2% in private HEIs. Two questions guide this study: What kind of institution and field of knowledge are blind students have been enrolled in? What is their sociodemographic profile? The results show the prevalence of enrollment of blind students in the private sector distributed in 462 Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), mainly in the university segment (60.9%) and in the face-to-face education (75.8%). The most attended undergraduate is in the fields of Education, Business, Administration, and Law. Most of these students are male (55%), self-declared white (45.4%), and in the age group of up to 30 years old (62.9%).