Video recorded entrance examinations in libras: a new way to access the federal university?

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Luiz Renato Martins
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Lacerda, Cristina Broglia Feitosa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Educação Especial (UFSM)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/educacaoespecial/article/view/21782
• topic: Entrance examination in libras; Higher education; libras translation and interpretation; Deaf education; Special education.; Vestibular em Libras; Ensino Superior; Tradução e Interpretação em Libras; Educação de Surdos; Educação Especial.

Over the last two decades, deaf people’s rights to schooling has strongly impacted the increasing of their access to the university, once restricted to a small portion of population. Video recording some entrance examinations in Libras (Brazilian Sign Language) was a response to the deaf community demand, which wants the valorization of their contributions for the scientific community. In this study, we aimed to investigate: How did deaf people take the video recorded entrance examinations in Libras for two federal public universities? And how did they understand the service addressed to meet their language needs? We carried out a qualitative research, exploratory and descriptive, with a semi-structured interview. We translated and categorized all the interviews, identifying divergences and convergences within the statements. The results show that deaf people were satisfied with the video recorded entrance examination in Libras in both universities. They also pointed out some potential adjustments to further improve this kind of exam. However, the effective entrance of deaf people in Brazilian universities is considered low, suggesting the need to strive for an improvement on the basic education in order to prepare those students and meet their language, cultural and educational needs.