Abstract

LOPES, Maura Corcini  and  VEIGA-NETO, Alfredo. Deaf cultural markers: when they establish themselves in educational space. Perspectiva [online]. 2006, vol.24, n.03, pp.81-100. ISSN 0102-5473.

This paper focuses on part of a study conducted with deaf individuals who are in school and/or who are active in deaf causes. Located in the theoretical field of post-structuralism and in Deaf Studies, we analyze narratives that these deaf people present of themselves and about school. The deaf school has been one of the spaces that promotes the approximation and the construction of a deaf community, an event that leaves marks on the community, which, upon supporting itself in the space of the school, is educated by its disciplinary practices. We identify the notion of struggle, the permanent co-existence of the deaf group and the experience of the look as cultural markers by which the individuals in the study establish and narrate their deaf identities. These communications also reveal changes in traditional deaf causes (calls for schools for the deaf and sign language) which are being, in large part, shifted to other issues such as educational conditions, recognition of the deaf’s capacity to learn and construction of deaf curricula, in which the cultural markers are present beyond the educational content.

Keywords : Deafness; Deaf People; Social Factors; Deaf.

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