THE DISCURSIVE TURN OF BRAZILIAN SIGN LANGUAGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

ABSTRACT

The article analyzes the recent inclusion of the Brazilian Sign Language in the curriculum of higher education of Paraná in order to discuss their main ways and means for teacher training. Therefore, this is a descriptive and exploratory research that aims to provide a regional overview of how this sign language is being organized in this institutions to meet the requirements of decree n. 5,626/2005. For this, will be analyzed the political, the intellectual and the pedagogical contexts that produced the rules of BLS teaching in the first decade of this century, as well as its impact on the spread of deafness as an ethnic-linguistic peculiarity liable of agency and inclusion by regular education systems.

KEYWORDS:
curriculum; higher education; linguistic policy; sociology of education; deaf