O imaginário social do professor ouvinte da Escola Estadual de Educação Especial dr. Reinaldo Fernando Cóser em relação ao aluno surdo

Abstract

During the graduation at Special Education Cours, there were many indagations related to the deafness, the Signal Language and the Deaf’s Education. In this sense, I was attracted by the Social Imaginary Theory, trying to understand the imaginary significances since the two dimensions: the instituted and the instituting, finding subsidies in Cornelius Castoriadis’s works. The general objective of this research is tok now the teachers’ imaginary significances in respect to deafness, more specifically the aspects which involve the Deaf’s Education and that provide the interactions between the Deaf and their pairs and between the Deaf and their teachers. The methodology had as fundamentals the qualitative research which, according to MINAYO (1998), enables to prepare a set of human expressions present in the structures, in processes, in subjects and in the representations. The collect of data was carried out through semi-structured interviews with the teachers graduated in specific areas of the knowledge. These teachers actuate at Dr. Reinaldo Fernando Cóser Special Education State School. In this way, the Social Imaginary Theory allows that each teacher gives a meaning to the Deaf’s Education and to his/her pedagogical practice. This is done starting from his/her experiences in his/her perceiving way.