Abstract

FERREIRA, Amauri Carlos  and  DICKMAN, Adriana Gomes. Oral History: a Method for Investigating Physics Education of Blind Students. Rev. bras. educ. espec. [online]. 2015, vol.21, n.2, pp.245-258. ISSN 1980-5470.  https://doi.org/10.1590/S1413-65382115000200006.

In this paper, we discuss the role of oral history in qualitative research, as an essential tool for collecting data from blind students or their teachers, specifically about their experience in learning or teaching physics in middle and high school. This methodological procedure, based on the interviewee's narrative (be he/she a student or teacher), allows one to understand the problems and challenges involved in the teaching/learning process and how they are correlated to the students' experience. The analysis of the blind students' narratives provides data that indicate the best choices the researcher should make when elaborating strategies and didactic materials appropriate to blind students, besides providing a better understanding of these students' performance during the application of tests. Thus, we suggest using this methodology through the discussion of possibilities brought into investigations related to physics education of blind students.

Keywords : Special Education; Physics Education; Oral History; Blind Student.

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