A importância da disciplina de LIBRAS para a formação do pedagogo

Abstract

The present research reffers to the Special Education improvement area of the Pedagogy Course from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). The purpose of this study was to analyze the importance of "Teaching of Libras" as a subject for the Teacher training itself . The specific objectives are: to identify future anxieties, experiences and expectations of the acquisition of that mentioned subject in the Pedagogy course from UFPB; To analyze how the Teaching of Libras build their theoretical-practical understandings concerned to the deafness in the referred course and to realize the importance of learning Libras for the Pedagogy graduation student from UFPB in relation to his/her coexistence with deaf students In the classroom. Based on the qualitative approach, the field research was developed through the application of a questionnaire with 102 students from the 7th period of the Pedagogy Course from UFPB who were enrolled in the Teaching of Libras course and it was fulfilled in the morning, afternoon and evening shifts during the month of July of the 2016.1 term. The adopted methodological procedures were organized in three stages: bibliographic survey on the subject, documentary research and empirical research with a posterior analysis of the collected data in the field work. As a theoretical contribution, studies on the issues of inclusive education, deaf education and teacher training were used. Among the authors used for this research, we highlight Veiga and D'Avila (2008), Nóvoa (1992), Skliar (1998), Strobel (2006) and Santiago (2011). Besides the mentioned theorists this discussion was based on the Laws and Guidelines related to the teacher formation process, the Pedagogical Project of the Pedagogy Course from UFPB and the "Libras" subject Planning Course. The results allowed us some results,such as, that the students from the Pedagogy Course from UFPB who were enrolled in the Libras subject are not ready for teaching classes for deaf students, although they understand the importance of that subject because it is the introduction to the awakening for further studies in the field of deafness and sign language areas.