O PROCESSO DE INCLUSÃO: OBJETIVAÇÃO E ANCORAGEM DO PRIMEIRO ALUNO SURDO NUMA INSTITUIÇÃO DE ENSINO SUPERIOR

Abstract

Currently, the inclusion has been discussed by society and especially by education professionals due to the movements and demands for schooling of people with special needs. Inclusion is a process that requires much more than transferring students from the special school to the regular one, because it is about making the student part of the school. In the case of deaf students, it refers to their insertion in society, taking into account that the deaf person has his/her peculiarities, among them, the way of communicating. His/her main communication channel is visualspatial. Deaf students are included in regular schools that follow a pattern based on the integration of all students, they must follow the same pedagogical method, advance at the same pace and be evaluated in the same way. In this sense, to include the deaf student is to propose a process of change, involving all segments of the school environment. Thus, the present work is a case study, which aimed to analyze how the current model of public policies about the education of deaf student materializes in the social representations of teachers who teach in a Higher Education Institution (HEI) in Goiás in 2016. In order to comply with the proposal, a qualitative-quantitative research was used through the application of questionnaires, interviews and documentary analysis. The methodological approach used was the Theory of Social Representations (TRS), based on the understanding that the deaf student in the case study belongs to several social groups, including the deaf, who are victims of exclusion processes in school settings. To carry out the research, the concept of "Inclusion" was analyzed from the studies of Maria Teresa Mantoan, the approach of Theory of Social Representations in the view of Serge Moscovici and the learning and deaf culture in a perspective of Ronice Quadros and Karin Strobel.