Percepções de mulheres docentes com deficiência: condições para exercer a profissão em uma universidade pública

Abstract

Often, there are situations of oppression and discrimination against social groups: women, teachers and people with disabilities in their work environments and the experiences of these three social groups are struggles for their right to exercise their professional choice well. welcomed to you. From this context, this research aims to analyze the perceptions of women teachers with disabilities at a public university about the conditions for exercising the profession. The central focus is to give attention and visibility to the other side of inclusion, to the teaching exercised by them, who, like the students, also need to be protagonists and be empowered in their work environment. The research has a qualitative nature, and was carried out through interviews with nine teachers with disabilities from Campus I of the Federal University of Paraíba. The interviews were conducted and recorded remotely using a semi structured script. After data collection, the audio recordings were transcribed and, based on data reading, they were divided into themes for analysis. The main results show that the perceptions about the professional practice of teachers with disabilities working in public universities are permeated with positions about their identities and personal achievements, however, the main challenges experienced within the work environment are still the barriers architectural.