Words are the issue : representations of / about established and outsiders in deaf youngsters and adults schooling / O dificil são as palavras : representações de / sobre estabelecidos e outsiders na escolarização de jovens e adultos surdos

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

This study, accomplished through interpretative ethnographic research of Erickson, 1984, 1989; Cavalcanti, 1990; Moita Lopes, 1994, 1996; Emerson et all, 1995; Mason, 1997; Agar, 1998), was guided by the following research question: What representations are built by deaf adults, students in one of the Youngsters? and Adults? Education classes of the National Institute for the Deaf, by their hearing teachers, by their deaf teacher and deaf monitor concerning the languages they use (Portuguese and the Brazilian Sign Language ? LIBRAS) at school? In an attempt to answer this question, the debate was carried out within a multidiscipline perspective using concepts from Sociology (Elias and Scotson, 2000), Anthropology and History (De Certeau, 2001), Critical Analysis of Discourse (Fairclough, 1989, 2001) and Philosophy of Language (Bakhtin, 1979, 1997), that, linked to contributions of Cultural Studies (Silva, 1998, 1999, 2000; Woodword, 2000), Deaf Studies (Skliar, 2002, 2003) and reflections on the field of bilingual education for minorities (Romaine, 1989; Grosjean, 1982, 1992; Garcia and Baker, 1995; Sktnabb, 1995; Maher, 1997) and for the deaf (Lane, 1992; Widell, 1994; Skliar, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000; Souza, 1998, 1999, 2000; Svartholm, 1998; Freire, 1998, 1999 among others) seeking a possible interpretation of the relationships between representations, language and teaching in the context of the focused school. One starts with the idea that the representations the participants build of sign language and Portuguese, place them in certain positions that produce repercussions on the teaching and learning processes. Given the particularities of interactions between deaf students, deaf professionals and hearing teachers, within the context of this study, the concept of established participants and outsiders developed by Elias and Scotson (2000) was key to enable this analysis to understand the different positions that the participants hold in their way of seeing themselves and others in their discursive practices. The analysis of records revealed that representations built by participants regarding the two languages used in the schooling context remit to the nuclear conflict faced by everyone: sign language, the natural language of deaf students and an important identifying characteristic of this group, only serves as a bridge and support to learning in the teaching and learning processes, while written Portuguese, within which the students can be considered as beginners, occupies a central place as a legitimized language at school as imagined by hearers. The repercussion of this conflict in interactions between participants and the different meanings they attribute to the languages, makes them at times be included and at other times be excluded from/of hegemonic discourses historically constructed about the deaf and deafness rooted in the matrix representation of the deficiency. It is in the exclusions, voiced by participants that this study aims to point out possible ways of building an educational project that incorporates the deaf in its curricular framework and pedagogic decisions

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bilingual education identity minorias linguisticas deaf surdez educação bilingue identidade linguistic minority

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