DEAFNESS IN THE VILLAGE: ANALYSIS OF A REALITY UNDER THE LIGHT OF HISTORICAL-CULTURAL THEORY
Indigenous School Education; Deaf education; Teaching-learning.
This work is part of the Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisa em Educação de Surdos (GEPES) of the Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA) and has the promotion of the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). This research, in progress, aims to analyze the teaching-learning process of deaf indigenous children from elementary school in an indigenous school located in the city of Santarém-PA. That said, I bring the following specific objectives: a) to analyze the school environment in which the deaf student is inserted; b) analyze the changes made in the context of the indigenous school to insert the deaf student and c) identify the pedagogical practices used by the student's teachers to interact with them. I use Newton Duarte's (2013) concept of being generic and Vygotski's (2000; 2001; 2010) ideas of environment, thought and language. In the methodology I use the historical-dialectical materialism, which works with the totality, contradiction and mediation, based on the book by José Paulo Netto (2011). As methodological tools I use classroom observation, field diary and semi-structured interviews. Finally, the relevance of this study is justified by the possibility of further reflection on the processes of inclusion of deaf people.