Social representations of the undergraduate deaf students of the Letras-Libras course

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Simone Saldanha Carneiro
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Kelman, Celeste Azulay
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Educação Especial (UFSM)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/educacaoespecial/article/view/5451
• topic: Deaf; Higher education; Bilingualism; Signlanguage.

A research was conducted which main purpose was to analyze the social representations of the deaf students and professionals of the Letras -Libras course - Distance Learning at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) about the deaf student. The paper here presented emphasizes data collected on the questionnaire applied to deaf students enrolled on this course. Results show what kind of social representations deaf people have about themselves and about their educational situation. Results also show the importance of a bilingual education for the Deaf and stresses how this kind of course is suitable to empowerment and make themfeel more equal and capable. Therefore, bilingual education can promote changings in the representations they have about themselves and about their learning.