Inclusive approach in higher education. A response from the Universidad Metropolitana

Abstract

The mission of the universities institutions has always been the transformation of society. For this reason it has been necessary to train the future professional in an integral way, which is why citizens’ attitudes and values, based on the National Development Plan, have acquired meaning based on inclusion, interculturality, and plurinationality. The work entitled: Inclusive approach in Higher Education. A response from the Metropolitan University, had as a general objective to train the human resources of the Metropolitan University to contribute to the creation, development, transfer and adaptation of new demands in order to respond to the requirements of modern society. The theoretical and empirical methods used were: documentary, exploratory, documentary analysis. The were developed on the basis of materialist dialectical thought and allowed the multilateral analysis of social phenomena in general and of educational ones in particular, contributing to this purpose, because it expresses in its theoretical foundations the definition of contents related to inclusion, disability, principles that support higher education and the changes that should be promoted in the context of higher education. As instruments, surveys and record sheets of tutorials of the UMET were used. With the results obtained in the teacher interviews with teachers and the attention of the students who received tutoring, it was concluded that they validate the effectiveness of the proposal.