EDUCAÇÃO ESPECIAL E LÍNGUA BRASILEIRA DE SINAIS NA FORMAÇÃO DE PROFESSORES DO CAMPO

Abstract

Special Education is the right of all students with some type of disability; global disorder or high skills / giftedness, a modality present in all stages of Brazilian schooling, from day care to universities, regardless of where the school is located. Therefore, Special Education must take place both in urban schools and in rural schools. As for the specialized educational assistance of deaf students, he must be bilingual, in Brazilian Sign Language and Portuguese Language. Thus, in this study we aim to reflect on the interface between special education and rural education with an emphasis on the inclusion of Libras as a mandatory curricular component in teacher training courses for rural teachers. In order to achieve this objective, we use a bibliographic review; documentary analysis of part of the legislation governing Special Education and a case study of a qualitative and quantitative nature of a Special Degree Course in Pedagogy of the Earth through the documentary analysis of its Political Pedagogical Project and a questionnaire applied to a sample of its students. graduates. We conclude that the inclusion of the Libras discipline in undergraduate courses represents a gain for the deaf community and the possibility of training teachers aware of its importance for the bilingual schooling of deaf students and the educational rights of these students. However, it has not proved to be sufficient to make future teachers proficient in Libras, in this sense we suggest as possibilities the increase in the course load of courses, their deepening in teaching and extension projects and we point to the need for more research in the area.