Apresentação da Seção Temática - Educação de Surdos: desdobramentos filosóficos, linguísticos e pedagógicos

Abstract

II Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo/RS -BrazilAfter the proliferation of policies on diversity and the creation of Federal Law 10,436/2002 (that recognizes the Brazilian Language of Signs -LIBRAS as a language with its own grammatical structure that constitutes a linguistic system of practices transmission built in hearing-impaired communities in Brazil), it became difficult not to consider their developments in the life and education of hearing-impaired people. In the educational and linguistic fields, whether regarding the analysis of educational practices that occur in universities, schools and other spaces where a relationship with others is established, whether in the definition of language communities that use LIBRAS, i.e., in the research on the processes of government and subjectivation of hearingimpaired individuals, the fact is that discussions on the recognition of the difference of the hearing impaired are more alive than ever.As is well known, since the last decade of the last century to the present day, the hearing impaired are increasingly conquering their rights. Today, in addition to having sign language recognized as their language, hearing-impaired people are graduating in different courses of Brazilian universities, taking public sector recruitment examinations, teaching their language to people interested in learning it, guiding researchers who are starting their academic lives in universities, actively participating in the bibliographical production on hearingimpaired individuals, protesting on the streets, making political campaigns, defining educational practices, requiring good quality interpreters in institutions etc. To analyze and problematize practices on