Curricularising University Extension: Workshop on the elaboration of accessible audiovisual teaching materials in an inclusive and human rights perspective

Abstract

The innovative proposal detailed here fills a vacancy space in the Caleta Olivia Academic Unit of the National University of Southern Patagonia in terms of communication accessibility. Through a university extension curricularisation project, we propose the design, materialisation and implementation of accessible audiovisual content that contributes to guaranteeing access to information for students with hearing impairment within the framework of the guidelines contained in the Comprehensive Academic Accessibility Programme for Public Universities. Faced with the necessary training of university teachers in the current scenario of the democratisation of higher education, the aim is to articulate the research work of the Collective of Researchers and Producers of Communication Accessibility with a critical extensionist proposal, in order to modify the homogeneous links with knowledge and communication that characterised traditional teaching up to the present day. Under the premise of integrality of functions, ergo, research, extension and teaching come together to respond to a latent demand of the students with sensory disabilities: their right to access to information. And, concomitantly, to higher education.