Abstract
The inclusion of deaf students has often been debated, especially for the bilingual and bicultural conditions of students who require specific teaching practices based on sign language. The objective of the study was to understand the point of view of educators on the role of this language. Eight professionals participated: the school director, the educational supervisor, the Brazilian Portuguese coordinator, the human sciences coordinator, the exact sciences coordinator, the teacher of Brazilian Portuguese as a second language, the resources room teacher and an interpreter of Brazilian Sign Language. The fieldwork was conducted at a public high school in Brazil’s Federal District. The method of the research was based on the construction of data organized from semi-structured interviews, following the theoretical assumptions of the dialectical historical materialism. In this way, the meanings shared between the researcher and interviewer composed a text for the analysis of the word and the meanings attributed to it, considering the material conditions in which it is produced. After being transcribed, the interviews formed a text in which the word is considered as a categorical unit of analysis. From the data analysis one category emerged: The professionals’ conception about the deaf student and the deafness. The conclusive bases of the study point out that there is a gap in the professional formation of educators regarding the specificities of students.
Inclusion; Bilingualism; Deaf; Educators