Práticas de disciplinamento e escolarização: registros fotográficos no contexto surdo.

Abstract

This master thesis presents a research affiliated to the Master’s Degree Program in Education from the Federal University of Pelotas. The investigation has taken place in a school for the deaf in Rio Grande do Sul, and had the objective of analyzing disciplining and schooling practices that were registered in photographic media, and the look upon these images allowed the analysis of the constitution of the schooling space. The methodology was constituted of visits to the institution, and the approximation to its photographic acquis, in which 64 images were selected, with a temporal clipping between the years of 1960 to 2005. After this step, two narratives were produced individually, with the previously selected images, and then presented to the interviewees. The subjects invited to perform these narratives have been present in different moments of the schooling in this particular school and have acted in different ways to assist the constitution of this space. After these two steps, the analytical process of the images began, and the interpretative method of images was used as a support. As the analysis proceeded, based in a Foucauldian perspective approach, as well as in theoreticians from the Deaf Studies field, evidence of disciplining and schooling practices that have become recurrent throughout the research process, and that are associated with different forms of disciplining, have emerged, through: a. the practices of oralism; b. rehabilitation of the body through mechanical devices; c. practices through workshops; d. school production through sports and signed choir. The approximation within the school acquis enabled a sharpened look on schooling of deaf subjects, the disciplining movements the school performs on them and the subjectivity produced there.