Interface between Higher Education and Inclusion: experience of the psychology internship at a regular school

Abstract

The process of inclusionary education seeks to meet the specific needs of students to guarantee universal access to education. This study is the fruit of a partnership between a high school and a school of higher education, both part of the structure of the Federal University at Santa Catarina (UFSC). To make viable the process of school inclusion, a non-obligatory internship for students in the psychology course was established at the high school that serves students with various types of special needs. The importance of the realization of this internship within an inclusionary teaching institution is related to the opportunity to approximate educational theory and practice, and principally, with the issues related to special needs. Considering the psychologist
as a professional at the service of preventive healthcare and the promotion of good health, it is essential that the student in this field be able to contact these salient issues that involve the subjects in their constitution, to prepare them for professional activity in a way that is committed to social problems, so that they can become another
partner in the articulation of a more egalitarian life for all.