Experiências escolares, aprendizagem e cultura: produção do sujeito surdo no cenário da escola contemporânea

The present paper aims to understand the articulation between the concepts of culture and learning as a condition of possibility to think about the production of the deaf subject in the contemporary school setting. To address this issue, the analysis was grounded on data from a research carried out in 13 schools for the deaf in Rio Grande do Sul. From this analysis, which put in operation two possible key concepts – subjectification and pedagogical device – we selected 20 interviews with deaf students and 4 interviews with teachers from a group of 156 subjects. Based on the narratives, we approached the singularities and discursive recurrences that reach the notions of culture and learning in the process of schooling deaf people. It is in this amalgam of instituted truths that we problematized what has been produced about being deaf in the context of bilingual education, thus inferring as well as marking desires to be, learn and live.