The process of implementing Bilingual Education for Students with Deafness in Covid-19: a socio-historical analysis
Bilingualism. Deafness. Socio-historical
This research was oriented theoretical and methodologically by Socio-Historical Psychology (SHP) and by Historical-Daletic Materialism (HDM) and its general objective is to analyze the process of implementing Bilingual Education for Students with Deafness, as well as to develop collaborative processes to better understand and intervene in this process. In order to achieve the proposal, five specific objectives were outlined: 1) to discuss the complex relationships that make up the Education of the Deaf from a socio-historical-dialectical analysis; 2) building a critique based on materialistic categories about the expropriation of teaching work in times of Pandemic and the implications for school education for the deaf; 3) to contrast, based on the works of Vigotski and Marx, the fetishization to which the educational process of deaf students was subjected and the speeches built around the Deaf Being and the learning of languages, be they Portuguese Language (LP) and Language of Signs (LS), as well as the teaching processes; 4) to enunciate the possibilities of the co-teaching in the promotion of a Bilingual Education for the Deaf based on critical collaborative research; and, 5) understand the mediations that permeate the historical process of Specialized Educational Assistance for the Deaf with a view to promoting Bilingual Education in a municipal education network. The research adopted some elements of the critical collaborative perspective and it had as instruments for the production of data the collective interview, the participant observation, with support in the logbook, the videography, the continuing education meetings, the planning meetings. The methodological procedures were developed in person and virtually, with the latter being the largest portion of the time in the research process. The partner subjects of this study were members of the management team of the municipal education department of a Northeastern city. The analysis of the information was carried out based on the categories of SH and HDM and the results point out important points for the construction of a bilingual education, problems that impact the subjective dimension of the professionals of the Deaf Education, the need for another formative dimension that is resistance to the compact and reductionist models on the Deaf Being, to be considered, above all, by an education against hegemony that seeks the objective transformation of reality.