O ensino de ciências da vida e da natureza aos surdos: o que dizem importantes periódicos da área a respeito?

Abstract

There are a number of needs to be met for an effective school inclusion of deaf people, especially with regard to life and nature sciences. One of them concerns the construction and development of appropriate methodological strategies for teaching deaf students. To get an overview of recent productions involving teaching science to deaf students, this work aimed to map the publications made in the last 5 years in some of the important journals in the area of teaching and/or education in life and nature sciences. The results pointed to the low number of publications dealing with science teaching for deaf students. Two hypotheses are suggested for discussion of this context. One of them would be that these works have been published in significant quantities and qualities under other formats or in other journals. Another hypothesis, more worrisome, is that these works have not really been developed and published, despite the importance that they would have for the school inclusion of deaf people in relation to science education.