Journal title EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY
Author/s Alessia Cinotti
Publishing Year 2019 Issue 2019/1
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 87-102 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/ess1-2019oa7829
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The Chilean Government has been taking legal action since 2010 by the law of 20.422 that establishes the Norms about Equal Opportunities and Inclusion for Disabled Persons. Despite above mentioned anti-discriminatory legislation framework and progress, several factor hamper the inclusion at university. Democratisation of HE has helped to ensure a growing trend of increasing enrolment of students with disability in Chile, although it is still not significant enough in terms of potential numbers.Starting from this scenario, the paper aims to provide an overview of the principal steps carried out during the MUSE Project in Latin American in order to highlight the progresses and the challenges of a process in act which has the objective of improve access, ensure retention conditions and develop rich learning opportunities for HEIs’ Disabled Students.
The Chilean Government has been taking legal action since 2010 by the law of 20.422 that establishes the Norms about Equal Opportunities and Inclusion for Disabled Persons. Despite above mentioned anti-discriminatory legislation framework and progress, several factor hamper the inclusion at university. Democratisation of HE has helped to ensure a growing trend of increasing enrolment of students with disability in Chile, although it is still not significant enough in terms of potential numbers.Starting from this scenario, the paper aims to provide an overview of the principal steps carried out during the MUSE Project in Latin American in order to highlight the progresses and the challenges of a process in act which has the objective of improve access, ensure retention conditions and develop rich learning opportunities for HEIs’ Disabled Students.
Keywords: Disability; inclusion; student support services; human rights
Alessia Cinotti, "Nuovi" sguardi alla disabilità e "vecchie" pratiche: un processo a due velocità. Dall’inserimento all’inclusione in ambito universitario in "EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY" 1/2019, pp 87-102, DOI: 10.3280/ess1-2019oa7829