Educação bilíngue para surdos em uma escola estadual de Manaus: desafios e possibilidades

Abstract

The present study was developed in the extension of the Mestrado em Gestão e Avaliação da Educação of the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. The case studied is an analysis about the education offered to the deaf students of a school of the state network of Manaus, called Escola Estadual Augusto Carneiro dos Santos (EEACS), which has as guiding documents the Pedagogical Political Project, the Regiment and the bilingual curriculum proposal. This proposal has as its legal basis the Federal Decree 5626, of December 22, 2005, which ensures that deaf students have a bilingual education, in other words, an education based on the teaching of sign language as a language of instruction for the acquisition of the Portuguese language in written form. The objective defined for this study was to understand how the teaching practices of this school are effective in the sense of valuing the deaf individual as to their peculiarities and specificities, in respect to their linguistic, identity and cultural differences. For that, was made a historical and political contextualization of education in Brazil, besides the description of the state education network of Manaus and of the EEACS. Aiming at the development of a work based on the role of school management, we chose a qualitative research, a descriptive study and a bibliographical research on education for the deaf. This research uses observation of everyday school life and interviews as instruments for data collection. Before the observation and data analysis we realize that, for lack of training of some teachers in sign language and absence of an evaluation system tailored to the deaf, the conception of bilingual education, by the actors involved in the educational process, has showed itself as superficial, distancing itself from what is presented in the documents that underpin the work of the school. Against this, the research intends to develop an Educational Action Plan (Plano de Ação Educacional - PAE) facing an education based on a bilingual perspective. For that, we will use authors who approach the subject, as Perlin (1998), Skliar (1998), Guarinello (2007), Stürmer (2009), Gesser (2009), Sá (2011), Silvério (2014), amongst others, besides the legal grounds.