Diversidades en la Universidad: Perspectivas y recorridos de la discapacidad desde las personas tomadoras de decisiones
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Developing and strengthening accessibility and inclusive practices within the university community requires a collaborative and integrated work process among different stakeholders. Gathering the opinions, questions, and reflections of institutional leadership on the university's approach to people with disabilities and inclusive competencies presents an opportunity to foster their development. This qualitative research, utilizing an action-participation methodology, aims in its first stage to explore the perspectives of decision-makers at a private health sciences university located in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Additionally, it proposes concrete actions that have the potential to significantly improve attention to diversity in terms of accessibility within a university that fosters inclusive practices, culture, and policies.The sample includes all university leadership positions.The five priority action lines in development are the systematization of guidelines and general resources for action, promotion of inclusive dialogue spaces, awareness and training on the subject, improvement of communication accessibility, and review of hiring policies and institutional image.It is concluded that enabling the question about addressing disability within the university has not only mobilized and strengthened resources and support among the different departments of the university community but also solidified a growing commitment to action in inclusion and equity.
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7124522673