
Sinergias educativas
July - September Vol. 9 – 3 - 2024
http://sinergiaseducativas.mx/index.php/revista/
Taking into account the problems worldwide and in Colombia
regarding inequality in education for students with disabilities and
specifically in higher education, it is found that in the Universidad
Surcolombiana de Neiva there is not a route of attention to build and
implement the PIARs that guarantee inclusive spaces and
transformations for all and for those with disabilities to have a
quality of life, education and constant support for their needs.
It is worth mentioning that, although the Colombian Ministry of
National Education generates school guidelines as formative, each
Higher Education Institution has autonomy, responsibility and
empathy to create in their school contexts an education for all with
inclusion, equity and empathy for diversity; that is why projects,
plans, activities, policies and curricular changes are made to ensure
equality, but in the case of people with disabilities it is required to
put an extra mile with PIAR and with other actions of administrative,
curricular, infrastructure and pedagogical practices adjustments
taking into account the context of the students. According to the
Ministry of National Education (2015), PIARs are pedagogical
strategies that increase the permanence of students in their formative
processes and leave significant traces.
Similarly, given the importance of PIAR, there is an opportunity for
improvement and linkage of these in the Universidad
Surcolombiana, since the same, since the agreement 053 of 2020, the
Institutional Policy of Inclusion is designed and socialized, being a
breakthrough for equity and social development (Superior Council
of the Universidad Surcolombiana, 2020). Although belonging to a
policy does not mean that there are comprehensive spaces for
inclusive education, it is a specific problem that new and current
students with disabilities at the university do not have a route of
attention for the implementation of PIAR according to each context,
causing a gap of inequality, discrimination and absence. Below is an
outline of the problem tree. Then, it is evident that the Universidad
Surcolombiana requires the design and future implementation of an
attention route for the construction and implementation of the
Individualized Plan of Reasonable Adjustments [PIAR] in students
in condition of disability in undergraduate. Otherwise, the scope of
the inclusion policy would not be fulfilled and high levels of
absenteeism and dropout would be created, affecting the teaching-
learning process of students and educational quality without barriers.
Cancino and Villegas (2021), recognize that higher education
institutions can appropriate the PIAR to improve higher education
and establish a positive management with quality, equality and