La inclusión de personas en condición de discapacidad sensorial visual a la educación superior en la localidad La Candelaria: exploraciones desde lo jurídico, la movilidad y lo social

Abstract

The community called La Candelaria in Bogota, besides Santa Fe community, and Los Martires community conform the center zone of Bogota city. In La Candelaria, over time, a set of prestigious ad private higher education institutions have been stablished as Universidad de los Andes, Universidad del Rosario, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Universidad La Gran Colombia, Universidad de América, Universidad Autónoma de Colombia, Corporación Unificada De Educación Superior, Universidad Libre, y Universidad de la Salle; this community may be considered as a big campus. The objective of this research is to analyze the phenomena and the perceptions in regards to the access to the higher education of people with visual impairment disability in this community, from the inclusive education approach. It is done from a social and critical view, whose main feature is to analyze the social facts built in the universities object of this study, through a survey, interviews, documentary analysis and finally with a panel of experts in inclusive education that allow us to study this aspect from the legal, mobility and social approaches. It aims to sensitize the society in order to make the people with visual impairment disability can perform effectively their rights to education, participation, equality, free association and other related, to construct real lands of transformation and change in inclusive spaces. Students with visual impairment disability are excluded from higher education institutions due to a variety of causes, such as the lack of knowledge of the legal norms and they do not know how to get in touch with reality from those institutions in the face of such a situation. Also, there is a lack of plans to allow an effective inclusive education. In the exploration of the current situation, we perceived that the educational community is distant, indifferent and foreign; people avoid the approach and involvement to people with visual impairment disability, it leads to a difficult daily life of this community because they are not allowed to participate in their personal and social development. Besides, State at national and local level has not generated a strategic urban and architectural plan that allows people with visual impairment disability a better and secure mobility