Brazil: 2nd International Seminar on Inclusive Society
Pontificia Catholic University, Minas Gerais, Brazil, October 22 to 26
Every day we can witness people and groups of people being excluded from our society. Disabled people, old people, women, children, poor, black, Indians, convicts, homosexuals and so many others who have been excluded fight for their right to come and go, to education, health, work, housing, sports, leisure and culture.
Laws have been created to guarantee those rights to all, but, in spite of them, society goes on excluding those people considered somehow different. Differences do not lessen people's rights: they are citizens and, as such, are part of society as anyone else.
Society evolves and we must be prepared to deal with human diversity. Every person deserves respect, regardless of sex, age, ethnic origins, sexual preference, economic level or disabilities.
In order to build a society open to all that stimulates everyone's participation, that welcomes the various human experiences and acknowledges each citizen's potential, we must evaluate public policies and social actions.
The 2nd International Seminar of Inclusive Society aims at exposing and debating the theme of inclusion in the fields of education, health, work, accessibility, technology and citizenship, as well as reviewing public policies and actions of civil society and of private enterprise, developed in the community in favor of the construction of an inclusive society.
Themes for Debate
Theme I - Inclusive Education
Inclusion means the conquest and exercise of citizenship. The school must be a provider of knowledge that enables people to become aware of their rights, demand their application and realize the need to exert them. As to those socially excluded, there are many laws and documents that assert education for all. Public and private schools should formulate pedagogical proposals according to those guidelines. Work should be directed towards envisaging solutions to the inclusion of students kept out of regular education and suggesting ways to overcome difficulties.
Theme 2 - Health and Inclusion
Health is a fundamental right of mankind. The World Health Organization (WHO) considers it a state of "physical, mental and social welfare, and not only of absence of diseases or illnesses." 1981, WHO adopted the worldwide strategy of "Health for All", aware that health begins at home, at school and in the workplace; that all must have access to essential health resources and that equal opportunities for social integration must be promoted to people with special needs.
Respecting everyone's right to health means carrying out changes in the political, economic, social and cultural organization of a country. Action in health will provide the support for people with special needs to live as independently as possible, effectively participating in society. Work should encompass health research, action and projects that may contribute to the social inclusion of people with special needs and evaluate the effectiveness of such action.
Theme 3 - Inclusive Projects: Work and Management
A proportional part of jobs, both in private companies and in public agencies, is legally guaranteed to disabled people. The law, however, meets many obstacles to its practical observance and to the consequent inclusion in the work of those with special needs. Those obstacles include the lack of qualification of disabled individuals, of programs to qualify or rehabilitate them, of an effective control as to the observance of the law, and of a central file agency listing disabled people who are apt to work. Above all, discrimination is a major obstacle.
Inclusive projects should present qualification and rehabilitation programs for disabled individuals, funding sources for those actions, creation of agencies with power of fine to control the legal proportion, establishment of a central file agency with records of potential disabled employees already qualified to work, evolution of the labor market for people with special needs, work relations in environments that involve inclusive labor, organization and representation of workers with special needs, insertion in the work process, corporate social responsibility, global governance and induction of labor guarantees for people with special needs, and impacts of the adoption of new managerial technologies on handicapped workers.
Theme 4 - Accessibility
The right to come and go is fundamental to the exercise of basic rights by people with special needs. Work should reflect on the possible solutions to public and private space accessibility and evaluate actions of government and private agencies that make accessibility viable.
Theme 5 - Assisting Technology
The use of technological tools may favor the access to basic rights by people with special needs. Work should present software, equipment, machines, etc., already developed or under development, applied in workshops, hospitals, research centers, universities, laboratories, and companies of any size or nationality, that prove to be assisting technology.
Theme 6 - Citizenship
People with special needs have rights in their relations with other people, society and institutions. Among these fundamental rights, those of equality and liberty, and their derivations, are most important. Another relevant matter for discussion concerns public policies at federal, state and municipal levels, related to people with special needs, which may contribute to the exercise of those rights. Work should consider fundamental rights applied to people with special needs and the analysis of public policies aimed at making their exercise viable.
Venue
Theatre of the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gerais PUC Minas, Av. Dom Jose Gaspar, 500, predio 30, Bairro Coracao Eucaristico, Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Application and Information
Pro-reitoria de Extensao, PUC Minas
Av. Dom Jose Gaspar, 500, predio 30,
Coracao Eucaristico, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil, CEP 30.535-610.
Phone numbers: (55 31) 3319-4975 and 3319-4977
E-mail socincl@pucminas.br
Web www.pucminas.br
Application Fee
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Until 8-30-01
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After 8-30-01
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Professionals
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R$ 50,00
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R$ 70,00
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Students
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R$ 25,00
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R$ 35,00
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Deposit in: Banco do Brasil, account number 2902-5, branch number 1614-4.
Norms for Paper Presentation
Only abstracts from participants who have already applied for the II Seminar will be accepted. Abstracts must be sent to the Organizing Committee, Pro-reitoria de Extensão, PUC Minas, for evaluation and selection, until June 15. Once the paper is accepted, the final draft must be sent until August 20, 2001, to be published by Internet, on the home page of PUC Minas, before the event takes place.
A - Abstract
Please deliver 5 (five) printed copies of the abstract without the author's name and 1 (one) diskette containing 2 (two) files (one with and the other without the author's name), or post them to Pro-Reitoria de Extensão, PUC Minas. You may also send 2 (two) files by e-mail annexed to the electronic message, in WORD 6.0 editor or superior, the first file being complete and the second one without the author's name, to socincl@pucminas.br until the scheduled deadline. The abstract must be in 6.0, A4 format, Arial font, size 12, simple spacing, according to ABNT norms, in 3 (three) pages at most.
Abstract structure:
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1st line: Title (centralized, capital letters, boldface);
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two lines below the title: author's name (left margin, italics, boldface);
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line immediately below the author's name: institution (left margin, no italics, no boldface);
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in case of more than one author, skip one line between the subsequent author's name and the previous author's institution;
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two lines below the last author's institution: paper abstract (justified alignment, no italics and no boldface, except for special expressions);
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authors' e-mail must appear as footnotes.
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the abstract must contain: paper description, methodology and obtained results.
B - The complete paper
The paper may be sent by e-mail with 2 (two) files annexed to the electronic message, in Word 6.0 or superior electronic editor, or posted with 1 (one) diskette containing 2 (two) files and a printed copy.
The text must be in Word 6.0, A4 format, Arial font, Size 12, simple spacing, according to ABNT norms, in at least 5 (five) and at most 20 (twenty) pages.
Work structure:
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1st line: title (centralized, capital letters, boldface);
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two lines below the title: author's name (left margin, italics and boldface);
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line immediately below the author's name: institution (left margin, no italics, no boldface);
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in case of more than one author, skip one line between the subsequent author's name and the previous author's institution;
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two lines below the last author's institution: main author's complete address (centralized, no italics and no boldface);
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one line below the main author's address: main author's telephone and/or fax (centralized, no italics and no boldface);
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one line below the telephone and/or fax: main author's e-mail (centralized, no italics and no boldface);
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two lines below the last author's e-mail: paper text ((justified alignment, no italics and no boldface, except for special expressions);
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tables, graphics, figures, etc. must be inserted in the text and in the same electronic file of the paper;
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bibliographical references and quotations must follow the norms of NBR 6023 and NBR 10520 of ABNT, which are available in the site of PUC Minas, on the Library page (Biblioteca).
For more information, please contact:
Rosa Maria Corría
E-mail: roos@pucminas.br or socincl@pucminas.br
Tel: (55-31) 9972-1912
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