Surdos e ouvintes em uma sala de aula inclusiva : interações sociais, representaçõe e construções de identidades

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2008

RESUMO

This dissertation discusses the ways in which social interaction occurs among four deaf students, a hearing teacher and hearing students at an inclusive public school. It also reflects about the representations of sign language and deafness built by the subjects, as well as about deaf identities constructions in this context. The classroom where the actions take place can be classified as sociolinguistically complex due to the fact that, in such school, the deaf students use sign language, and neither the teacher nor most of the other students know it. Following ethnographic perspectives (Erickson, 1984 and 1986, Van Lier, 1990; Mason, 1997; Winkin, 1998; Cavalcanti, 2000) the registers for this study were generated (Mason, 1997; Cavalcanti, 2000) by non participant observation. These registers took the form of field notes, diaries, audio recordings and their transcriptions, interviews and formal and informal talks, as well as retrospective diary. The theoretical discussion was grounded on contributions from Applied Linguistics (Maher, 1997, Cavalcanti, 1999; Canagarajah, 1999 and 2004; Silva, 2005; Favorito, 2006); Intercultural Education (McLaren, 2000, Moreira, 2002; Maher, 2007); Bilingual Studies for Minorities (Maher, 2007; Souza, 1998 and 2007; Souza e Góes, 1999), and Deaf Studies (Perlin, 2006). Concepts such as representation and identity - as observed in Cultural Studies (Hall, 1998; da Silva, 2000) and that of resistance - as seen in Anthropology and History (Certeau, 1994) and the notion of participants and outsiders - as proposed in Sociology (Elias &Scotson, 2000) - were specifically focused. The results show that the nature of social interaction among the hearing teacher and her deaf students occurred in different ways. As she had not only a positive representation of sign language and deafness, but also of her deaf students, the teacher developed different ways for interacting with them. Communication among the four deaf students frequently occurred, since all of them were users of sign language. Besides, in moments when linguistic difference prevented them from taking part in classroom activities, they used the tactic (Certeau, op. cit.) of talking to each other in sign language in spaces defined as safe houses (Canagarajah, op. cit.). Such strategy allowed them to attribute more positive identities to themselves. On the other hand, the moments of social interaction between deaf students and hearing students were not frequent, except for those that occurred with a hearing bilingual student. Nevertheless, the representations that the hearing students constructed of sign language and deafness, as well as the identities that they attributed to their deaf peers were, most of the time, positive

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minority languages sign language surdez deafness multilinguismo linguagem por sinais - brasil identidade multilingualism minorias linguisticas identity

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