BILINGUAL EDUCATION: PATHWAYS AND POSSIBILITIES BASED ON NARRATIVES OF DEAF STUDENTS
Bilingualism. Pounds. Deaf. Deaf Education.
This research aims to analyze the reports produced by deaf high school students, in a public school in Natal – RN, with reference to the teaching methodologies used in the classroom context. From what can be seen, the focus is on the bilingual perspective/bilingual experiences of this group, in order to highlight their traumas, desires and the like. This intention is extremely important and, based on the analysis, methodologies were proposed that match the local reality. To do so, we resorted to the theories of Ladd (2003), Quadros (2019), Perlin (2013), regarding Deaf Studies. Methodologically, this work makes use of the assumptions of autobiographical research in education, since we seek to understand the narratives of deaf students, thus the research is classified as qualitative, we use interviews as a method of obtaining data. The results demonstrate the need to create pedagogical strategies that enable deaf students to have significant access to information and the acquisition of school content, through visual pedagogy, which includes their natural language: Libras, based on in the assumptions of bilingualism. Aiming at narratives based on the experiences of deaf students, we can extract the importance of bilingual schools relating to the theoretical and methodological parts. We conclude, from this present study, the need to ensure education with a bilingual bias so that deaf people can have the right to use their mother tongue in their schooling for the development of the learning process. The research resulted in a product that aims to contribute to the deaf community by bringing essential elements and information for the development of these people's learning, with a focus on bilingual education.