Brazilian Sign Language and Teacher Training: from Observation to Overcoming Hierarchies

ABSTRACT: This study aims to analyze the space occupied by the Brazilian Sign Language discipline in the curriculum of a teaching undergraduate course and what its formative competence for the future teacher is. With a qualitative approach, it brings the non-directive interview as an instrument for investigation, linked to the theoretical framework in which Bourdieusian studies assume a central role in the methodological path. The participating agents were the professors of the Brazilian Sign Language discipline and the professors of the Department of Pedagogy of a State University, in the hinterlands of the state of Paraná, Brazil. It was possible to ascertain that the Pedagogy course focuses on teaching for Early Childhood Education and early grades of Elementary School. There is a recurring idea among professors that the disciplines of Fundamentals occupy more space in the curriculum and the hierarchies of knowledge are imperative in the context of curricular organization. The Brazilian Sign Language discipline, and its implementation in the course, is of legal order with little or no mobility within the curriculum, and it has been assigned the role of educator of the pedagogue for deaf education, in the perspective of educational inclusion.