Libras e a prática docente durante a pandemia: recursos e estratégias metodológicas utilizadas por professores surdos no Ensino Superior

Abstract

During the Covid-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2021, the EIS adopted a remote teaching regime, which allowed students to keep studying. This research seeks to answer the following question: which resources and methodological strategies were used in the Libras subject by deaf professors in universities during the pandemic? What were the major challenges faced? The general objective is to investigate the practices that professors did remotely during the pandemic in their main educational institution. The specific objectives seek to describe the challenges faced by deaf professors in university classes realized during the pandemic between 2020-2021 and verify if there were any changes at their work before and after the pandemic. The methodology used was qualitative, a case study through a questionnaire sent to the professors as a Libras video. The questionnaire had 8 questions and was answered by the professors. It’s observed that the main platform used during the pandemic were Google Meet to realize web conferences and Moodle as a Virtual Learning Environment. In the Libras teaching, which is a linguistic system of visual motor nature and with its own grammatical structure, there’s a great importance in the visual field. After an analysis of the results, it was possible to conclude that many materials were used by the professors as visual resources, such as videos, images and texts in their remote classes, while they had difficulty following the students' understanding during classes and internet connection problems, which also affected the students.