Innovation and inclusion: integration in favour of public school students in public university

Abstract

This paper reports results of the research aimed to understand and evaluate the impact of Higher Education Program Interdisciplinary (PROFIS), State University of Campinas, in the case of a dedicated experimental program to a different group of students with specific demands and a differentiated curriculum. As research objectives sought: - know the vision of the teachers on the course offering to the specifics you have and how they coped with students with different demands and the educational challenges of a curriculum of general andinterdisciplinary training; - Evaluate the point of view of the program students and coordination of the architecture oriented curriculum for general and cultural education; - Lifting the course reaches as social inclusion and combating self-exclusion; - Know the evaluation of students about the training received to prepare them academically for continuing vocational training and acting as a citizen. The research is of importance since the university is not yet known as a manager of a training course as specific as is the goal of profes. The methodology used was different for each of the aspects to be assessed and for each group of subjects. Questionnaires for students, interviews with teachers and coordinators. The results demonstrate the student satisfaction, good considerations to teachers course design and engineers, the effective inclusion that provides this very specific group of universitária.