Eu, tu, ele: ancoragens da representação social do aluno com transtorno do espectro autista no ensino superior

Abstract

This paper fits in the discussion about the construction of the social representation of the autist in higher education from the experience of three students with ASD that goes to three different colleges at Goiás. As theorical bases this research uses the theory of social representation developed by the romenian Serge Moscovici. This theory consists in a group of concepts, propositions and explanations originated at the daily life with the daily talking. At the evolution of the theory the researcher concerned about to understand how generated knowledge can became a common reality in a society or social groups from sharing that turns ideas into practices. Therefore this research aims to analyses the social representations in graduation process, at the time the first autist students gets in college. The specifics goals try to find at the proper autists voices their mothers and professors, the alignments that composes the anchor content of what comes to be social representation of the autism in a context which they are not familiarized that is the autist at higher education. So, we have the hypothesis that social representation of the autist at the higher education still in process of construction, since the first autist starts to get college degrees. The person with ASD is considered by medicine and official government papers as "people with disabilities" and the spectrum characteristics are persistent prejudice at the social fitting and communication. Even though the ASD open field in the different knowledge areas it fits necessarily at the education field because it's a part of the social inclusive programs. Hence this investigation uses as methodological procedure qualitative research trough a study case three different colleges from Goiânia, doing interviews semi-structured and open