Reflexos da política de cotas para pessoas com deficiência sobre o acesso na UFC (2018-2020)

Abstract

This work seeks to understand how the policy of quotas promoted the access of students with disabilities at the Federal University of Ceará - UFC, through the analysis of their entry into the ten courses that most presented discrepancies in relation to the cutoff scores between the modalities reserved for this public, and the others in the Unified Selection System (SISU), in 2020. In view of this, we brought the historical path regarding the right to education of people with disabilities, thanks to the contributions of Baptista (2019), Jannuzzi (2006), Mazzotta (2011), Mendes (2010), and others, as well as actions aimed at promotion of inclusion and accessibility in higher education, based on the work of Castro, Amaral e Silva (2017), on the guiding document of the “Include Program” and on Law nº 13,409 of 2016. Thus, we resorted to the qualitative approach due to its competence in dealing with social phenomena, with the application of an online form for the construction of data. The results showed that in all analyzed courses there was an increase in the presence of people with disabilities since the reservation of vacancies for this group was adopted in the institution, in 2018, and, although more than half of the participants denied the influence of the cut-off grade when choosing a course, around 47% claimed that the quality of basic education has made it difficult for this portion of students to enroll in higher education. We conclude, therefore, that quotas have provided the rise of people with disabilities in the scope of federal higher education, as they ensure competition between equals, respecting the principle of material isonomy, but it is necessary to have quality basic education so that this access is expanded and the permanence and progress in the course are not threatened by training losses arising from this level.