Saberes profissionais docentes e ensino de língua estrangeira a alunos com deficiência visual

Abstract

The massive presence of students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) in regular classrooms, made possible by the public policies of inclusion (Law n. 7,853/89; BRASIL, 1996, 2013), highlights the importance of rethinking, especially in initial teacher education, the knowledge and/or skills that enable the teacher to meet the needs of this audience effectively. In this sense, this study aimed at investigating the teachers’ knowledge which came from a pilot experience including students with visual impairment (VI) in regular foreign language classrooms of the “Programa de Extensão em Língua Estrangeira do Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas” at the Federal University of Paraíba (PRODELE / DLEM / UFPB) in the year 2013. In order to achieve our goals, we used literature in the area of school inclusion and its dilemmas (BEYER, 2010; DANTAS, 2010, 2014a, 2014b; FERREIRA; FERREIRA, 2013), and professional teacher education (PERRENOUD, 1999, 2000; PERRENOUD and THURLER 2002; MEDRADO, 2012; TARDIF, 2014) as a theoretical framework. Data were gathered from three (03) recorded meetings involving the members of a Scientific Initiation research project, and also three (03) interviews with three (03) former students with visual impairments. Through qualitative-interpretive analysis, specifically from positions assumed by students and teachers in their speeches, we categorized teachers’ knowledge which, if developed in initial education, may help teachers in the teaching of students with VI in inclusive scenarios. Finally, our work does not intend to build a teachers’ knowledge repertoire, because we understand that they emerge from this context, experienced by these subjects – students with VI and teachers from extensão – and, therefore, vary over time and with other situations. What our research provides is reflecting from the other’s experience, pushing us to make the school inclusion a reality and not a "make-believe" exercise.