Culturas, políticas y prácticas inclusivas según estudiantes universitarios

Abstract

Diversity in university students is a reality that we cannot ignore, and it has constituted a topic of interest in recent years. This article intends to analyze the progress of inclusive education at university level from the students’ perception according to three dimensions of inclusive education: creation of cultures, generation of policies and development of practices. In order to meet the objective, the Index for inclusion adapted to higher education was applied to 848 university students. Data was processed using descriptive statistics. The results indicate a significant appreciation of dimension A: Creating inclusive cultures (M = 2.00; SD = 0.39) in a very similar extent to dimension C: Development of inclusive practices (M = 1.97; SD = 0.48), while Dimension B: Developing inclusive policies, remains the most underestimated dimension (M = 1.84; DE = 0.43). The results show the response that is required from the university, aiming to generate mechanisms that guarantee access, permanence and completion of higher education, as well as the need to promote policies with an inclusive approach that responds to the diversity of university students.