Pelos caminhos da acessibilidade na vida universitária: versões e encontros possíveis

Abstract

This work describes the experiences of students and employees at inclusion centers from university, with accessibility as a target. Accessibility, in this text, goes beyond law and inclusion. It focuses on practices, which could keep engaged students in university or not. The researcher wrote down all text by doing a metaphor with a trip by train. In this context the author is a traveler with a backpack. This backpack is loaded with a theoretical-methodological framework, which supports both the scientific rigor and a methodology for accessing the field of this research: the actor-network theory (ANT), that describes in detail what happens in research field, bringing out the human and non-human actors who plays in that network; carries gestalt therapy, which bets on creativity and differences as existence affirmations and brings a psychological field concept; carries also the pesquisarCOM method, proposed by Marcia Moraes (2010), in which the researcher is not seen as the expert, but instead, the researched are the true experts and, therefore, does the research with the other and not about the other; the concept of being affected, by Bruno Latour (1999) and Jeanne Favret-Saada (2005), who discuss about that the researcher needs to learn to be affected by the research field and should concern that its project may quit; is also compounded by the ontological politics concept, the logics of care and choice discussed by Annemarie Mol (1999, 2008); the handcraft process of researching, proposed by Laura Quadros (2015); and, finally, research as Version, brought by Vinciane Despret (1999), meaning that there is no imposition on other research, it does not deny them, but coexists in the field of knowledge compounding other points of view on same topic. Thus, in this work, The Affections Methodology is presented and emerges as a methodological research proposal. So, this trip is composed of six sections. The first one is “Planning the Trip”, which describes how the idea for the research came out and how the method used in was developed. The second, brings “Meeting with the Research Field”, which describes how an unplanned just-hired teacher, the pandemic and the researcher works as a clinical psychologist takes place in the research. The third section talks about “Evoked Memories Station”, which recalls the researcher first time in contact with the topic of accessibility in university life and gestalt therapy. This section provides a connection with the fourth section of the trip, called “The Remade Paths”, which takes to the “Accessibility Station and University Life: Versions, Encounters and Possibilities”, and it assumes central theme of this Thesis. The fifth section - “Station Learning and Reflections From the Trip” - brings ideas and solutions from some research's participants about accessibility and finishes telling what was learned and trading off to what was experienced. Finally, in the last section, “Final Station: Utopia” performs some provocations, drawing possibilities and dreams for the future.