Cytology for deaf students: a potentially significant teaching unit

• Autor(a) principal: Tavares, Eliane Barth
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Anic, Cinara Calvi, Cabral Neto, João dos Santos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Educitec
• DOI: 10.31417/educitec.v4i08.525
• Texto Completo: https://sistemascmc.ifam.edu.br/educitec/index.php/educitec/article/view/525
• topic: Surdez; Unidade de ensino; Biologia; Mapa conceitual

Taking into account that deaf students’ learning depends on another language which is not Portuguese, we consider it important to use Brazilian Sign Language as a language of instruction for teaching and learning curriculum subjects, such as Biology, in a meaningful way, specially Citology, whose contents are considered abstract and complex. For this reason we have elaborated an investigative path in order to build a Potentially Meaningful Teaching Unit (PMTU) for teaching Cytology to first-year deaf students of inclusive high schools in Rio Branco, Acre State. In this perspective, we have elected Ausubel’s Meaningful Learning Theory as theoretical framework and the action research methodology to promote the active participation of individuals. PMTU development took twelve meetings with six deaf students. During the elaboration of this study, evidences of students learning were assessed via Concept Maps and analyses were carried out via Topological Taxonomy (CAÑAS etal., 2006) and Semantic Taxonomy (MILLER; CAÑAS, 2008). The results obtained during the PMTU development show that the use of visual resources was an important factor to ensure the comprehension of the contents, even if there were not a corresponding signfor some specific terms in Brazilian Sign Language. Furthermore the Concept Maps were considered helpful resources to teach Citology to deaf students