Uma ideia na mão e uma câmera na cabeça: cinema na educação bilíngue de surdos e surdas

Abstract

Situated in the field of bilingual education for the deaf, this research is based on problematizations about the relation between cinema and the education of the deaf. Looking to discuss visuality and visual literacy issues, we present the objectives of investigating, analyzing and discussing how cinema can collaborate with bilingual education for the deaf. We conducted this study to try to understand how it can be done and what contributions education of the gaze can offer in the field of bilingual education for the deaf and deaf. The way we carried out this study was through qualitative research in special education, in which a short film by a group of seven deaf teenagers participating in Libras workshops was recorded in a bilingual school. The video recording process was described and analyzed in the light of the historical materialistic theoretical and methodological framework on development, language, discursive practices and editing in the cinema. The results indicate that the activity carried out promoted discursive and dialogical practices favoring the development of Libras, the writing of the Portuguese language, the formation of concepts and the reading of images from the education of the gaze. The results also show that the activity can benefit other audiences besides deaf and deaf students. The study also promotes important starting points and data sharing for further research.