Educação e inclusão em instituições de ensino superior

: o caso das pessoas da comunidade LGBTQIA+

Abstract

This work corresponds to a dissertation leading to the award of a Master's degree in Educational Sciences with a specialization in Social Pedagogy, entitled “Education and Social Inclusion in Higher Education - The case of people from the LGBTQIA+ community”. In theoretical terms, this dissertation is based on the educational sciences, in particular Social Pedagogy as a field of knowledge that frames the socio-educational praxis developed in a logic of promoting proximity and social solidarity. In empirical terms, we opted for a data collection strategy framed by a qualitative approach and based fundamentally on the direct questioning of actors in order to understand the extent to which higher education students belonging to the LGBTQIA+ community find conditions of reception and institutional inclusion, what difficulties and challenges they face. The data collected and analyzed shows that there is still a long way to go when it comes to the inclusion of students from this community, suggesting the need to promote inclusive education programs of a pedagogical nature and more targeted at the specific and concrete problems of people from minority communities, such as those in the case of this study.

Date of Award	14 Feb 2025
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Isabel Baptista (Supervisor)