A DISCIPLINA DE LIBRAS NA FORMAÇÃO DO PEDAGOGO DA UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO CENTRO-OESTE  UNICENTRO: CONSTITUIÇÃO, LÓCUS E CONTRIBUIÇÃO

Abstract

The present research, from qualitative approach, proposes to achieve two objectives: to analyze the Constitution of Brazilian Sign Language-Libras as discipline curriculum mandatory in the Pedagogy course in the Universidade Estadual do Centro - Oeste -UNICENTRO-Guarapuava/PR and investigates the locus of Libras on course curriculum and its possible contribution to the formation of the professionals. It is based in Bourdieu’s theory with key concepts of habitus, capital, countryside, symbolic violence, strategies and knowledge hierarchy, what inspires, as well as meet and define its concepts, apply its modus operandi to research, observe how the concepts are forged from the search object and the relationships between agents and structure. For the production of data, a non-directive interview was chosen. Participants were the teachers of the discipline of Libras and the teachers of the Department of Pedagogy of UNICENTRO/G. With the research, it was possible to verify that the Pedagogy course is centered in the formation of teaching for Early Childhood Education and initial years. There is a recurring idea among professionals that Fundamentals disciplines occupy more space in the curriculum. The discipline of Libras and its implementation in the course is of a legal nature, with little or no mobility within the curriculum, and it has been given a role of teacher educator for the teaching of the deaf student, from the perspective of educational inclusion. However, Libras' responsibility is too great for the actual conditions it occupies within the course. Therefore, there is an urgent need to think about the configuration of the discipline and the knowledge that it deals with, since even tied to the discourse of inclusion, historically it has been considered insufficient by the deaf students because it is a primarily monolingual instruction environment. As the deaf student learns and how to teach it runs through the language, but specific methodologies are necessary, resulting in a time load of the discipline that is insufficient for this purpose. Still, it is verified that the role of Libras professor in the University has odd nuances, but the fact of feeling little valued in the academic space is limiting of its practices. The formation of the deaf teacher who works at the graduate level also stands out because of the difficulty of the deaf teachers in continuing their stricto sensu formation, and with this, the little existence of institutionalized capital that gives them greater participation and mobility in the academic field. Finally, there are the internal confrontations within the deaf community, the tension between the deaf and the fluent listeners in Libras and the specificity to be a teacher of Libras in college, the discussions on the subject are focused on the audiological question and not necessarily on professional competence.