Abstract:
This research presents a theoretical study about the continuing education of teachers
of deaf students, having as a proposal to act with this public in the regular inclusive
school the visual pedagogy in which teachers and visuality assume roles of
paramount importance for the understanding and development of deaf students. In
the reflection on possible forms of teaching for deaf people, we seek to contemplate
the following objective: to understand the possible contributions of visual pedagogy in
the context of the continuing education of hearing teachers of deaf students. Among
the specific objectives, the study seeks to analyze the theoretical frameworks of
teacher education in the context of continuing education and inclusion, describe the
concept of visual pedagogy within deaf studies and relate visual pedagogy to
continuing education of teachers within deaf studies. The theoretical foundation for
the research took place within the area of teacher education and deaf studies.
Articles, dissertations and books were consulted in order to obtain the theoretical
corpus necessary to support the research, researchers of continuing education of
teachers in this study are based on Tardif (2014), Imbernón (2009) (2015), Gatti
(2008), Pedro Demo (2021) exploring the conceptual part of continuing education
and how it takes place in Brazil. Dealing with differences, hegemonic cultures and
how they influence the relations between deaf and hearing people were investigated
within the deaf studies, Strobel (2008), Perlin (1998) (2015), Quadros (2003), Pires
and Santos (2020), Lacerda (2021), Skliar (2006), (2015), Campello (2008). To
understand the concept of visual pedagogy that is found in deaf studies and its
applicability we base the research on Campello (2008), Grützmann, Alves and
Lebedeff (2020), Lacerda, Santos and Caetano (2021). This is a qualitative
bibliographic research and content analysis of the speeches of teachers and deaf
people contained in the documentary Deaf Culture: realities and challenges of the
deaf in São Paulo by Jéssica Soler, from the year 2017. The methodological
procedure adopted is Laurence Bardin's Content Analysis for the description and
interpretation of the studies and the documentary. The research reinforced that the
initial training of teachers is deficient in relation to the knowledge necessary to teach
deaf students taking into account their specificities such as culture, forms of learning
of the deaf and acquisition of a language - Libras in order to make them bilingual
teachers. A proposal for continuing education that can be explored in the emergency
situation that the teaching of these students is in is visual pedagogy. It is relevant for
professionals who work with hearing and deaf students in the same room, in the
development of inclusive visual teaching practices.