Estudo sobre as trajetórias de empoderamento de mulheres surdas na Universidade Federal da Paraíba – Campus I

Abstract

This Conclusive Project aims to analyse the circumstances in which deaf women joined at Federal University of Paraíba, campus I, through a data collection in the period of 2018.1. This paper shows an initial historical contexto about deafness, acessibility and inclusion rights, and how deaf women make their way to empowerment relentlessly. This research resulted at a feature analysis related to these women trajetories, initially by the application of an interview. The results defines, in general, how important the university education is to this women, and how basic education, family and social relations influenced these students to pursue higher education. Nevertless, it was also observed how punctual events was to their admission into university, although there are repeatedly difficulties since basic education to higher education, leading us to analyse this situation.