A importância das Tecnologias Digitais da Informação e Comunicação (TDIC) acessíveis às pessoas com deficiência visual no Ensino Superior: um estudo realizado na Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco

Abstract

This research aims to understand the social voices present in the speeches of students with visual impairment and of University professors who have already taught students with disabilities about the debate on inclusion, and its relationship with Digital Technologies of Communication and Information (TDIC) for people with visual impairments at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, considering the contextual changes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. For this, there were two moments, carried out between August 2021 and September 2021. At first, a questionnaire was applied; later, a semi-structured interview was carried out with the subjects that made up the research universe: 04 students and 05 professors. For the analyses, a method of categorization of responses was built, based on Bakthin's dialogism. This made it possible to understand the play of voices between statements by visually impaired students who experience the university context, and teachers who also experience this reality in the pandemic, which produced new meanings about technologies and virtual learning environments. The results showed that there is integration of people with visual impairments in the institution, but not inclusion, as the law ensures to students. In the subjects' speeches, it is possible to find productions of meanings about the lack of teacher training, the difficulty in disseminating information at the university, as well as the limits of a society that is not so concerned with inclusion. However, the disquiet of teachers was highlighted in the speeches regarding the issues that were raised, showing that they have reproduced the desire and effort for inclusion in their speeches and actions.