Educação de surdos: os desafios históricos para a efetivação de direitos sociais da população surda

Abstract

Deaf people went through a violent denying of rights process, for expressing and interpreting the world by a visual-spacial language, however not being recognized by the State for centuries, the sign languages are the brand of a community’s resistance. Punished for the sign communication prohibition, chased, violated and deceased, deaf people were only considered able to have a social life by speaking. Under this pattern of listener’s domination, many of them were condemned to dehumanization by the negation of education. With the objective in understanding the social and historical of deaf education in Brazil and worldwide, It intends reflecting the condition of deaf people in their cultural and linguistic singularities, especially against a society that produces and reproduces expressed inequalities in the scholar life and inaccessible to the rest of their social rights. Mediated by the qualitative methodology of documental analysis, as well as through the bibliographic research, are presented appointments of the important relationship between State and society and their contradictions against the urgent demand of a deaf education lined in the constitutional right to human dignity. With the finality to infer about the reality of the deaf education process in the world and in Brazil, a critical reflection is revealed up to the right of education and it’s political emancipatory role, at the same time it consume itself, in a critical way, questions about communicational accessibility and inclusion nowadays.