Strategies to promote the active participation of students with functional diversity in inclusive curricular pedagogical projects.

Abstract

To achieve educational inclusion, it is not only necessary to enact public policies, but it also requires the deployment of strategies that promote the development of an inclusive culture, the elimination of existing barriers and the active participation of the educational community to eradicate discriminatory behaviors and exclusionary factors that limit the achievement of these objectives. Partiendo de esta perspectiva, con el desarrollo del presente artículo se tuvo como principal propósito el de analizar las estrategias aplicadas para el fomento de la participación activa de los estudiantes con diversidad funcional en proyectos pedagógicos curriculares inclusivos. The methodology applied was descriptive with a mixed approach, which made it possible to collect information in relation to the inclusive strategies that have been implemented in different educational institutions in the city of Azogues, province of Cañar; considering as the study population teachers and students to whom interviews and surveys were applied respectively.​The results showed that in most cases the strategies applied have focused on the training of educators in matters of inclusion, with the aim of offering them tools so that they can adjust their teaching methods and techniques so that they favor the processes of inclusion training and support for students with functional diversity, as well as the use of technological resources that are available to facilitate the active participation of these students. It is concluded on the importance of continuing to promote the implementation of this type of strategies in different educational institutions.