IMAGES, HISTORY AND DEAFNESS TEACHING: how history is seen in historical images by the deaf.
History teaching; Deafness; Multiliteracy; Historical Literacy; Libras; Visual Pedagogy.
It is in this scope that is inserted this thesis. Understanding that the educational history is constituted of self ideological signs, which relate to science issues like time and space, so it shows a specific literacy. The present work has its focus on the use of images on History classes for deaf students, aiming identifying through interviews how deaf individuals who have been part of the process of “Basic Education” (Elementary and Middle school) comprehend their historical literacy (AZEVEDO, 2011, 2013, 2015a, 2015b) and its relation with the relevant images for History teaching, once it’s through visuality that the deaf individual establishes their relationship with the world. Therefore, the formal “school environment” is understood as a place where “multiliteracies” happen, and among them there’s the literacies which are the focus of this research, the previously mentioned historical and visual literacies (LEBEDEFF, 2019/STOKES, 2002). In consonance with these concepts are brought the contributions of theorists of Deaf Studies - Lodi (2002, 2006, 2015), Lacerda (2006, 2013, 2014) and Campelo (2008) - and Historiography, in which involve the relation and use of images - Burke (1997, 2004) and Knaus (2006), that delimits the frontier of this research, which is located in the field of History Teaching, but also establishes direct relations with the Deaf Studies. In this work there were used research tools from Web 2.0, such as videoconference apps and websites and digital forms, once the study was happening during the COVID-19 global pandemic. For the interviews’ analysis it was used as methodology the Oral History applied to nonoral subjects, with the start point of the valuation of LIBRAS as a language. Therefore this research is realized in a bilingual perspective.