Análise do impacto da pandemia do coronavírus (Covid-19) na educação de estudantes surdos em uma escola bilíngue.

Abstract

This work presents some elements regarding the relationships created in Deaf schools in remote teaching during the coronavirus pandemic in 2021. The data were collected in our research using a qualitative approach and our main research question was: what is the impact of the pandemic in school interactions between Deaf students, teachers, and students’ relatives in the analyzed school? and main objective was to understand the impact of the pandemic in Deaf students’ education in a bilingual school. The corpus that was analyzed is composed by semi-structured interviews with teachers and students of a Deaf school in Rio Grande do Sul. The interviews were conducted online, and UFPel’s video conferencing platform, Webconf, was used as the resource to receive the participants and conduct the interviews, which were conducted in Libras and subsequently transcribed into Portuguese. The data allowed us to organize five categories and we have analyzed these categories according to Bardin’s Content Analysis (1977), and have also sought to comprehend the data in light of the Social-Historical Theory by Vygotsky (1991-2012). The data showed that teachers were required to develop strategies to establish the interaction with Deaf students, having as an important challenge the need to adapt to the precarious technological conditions of the student’s. Furthermore, we have noted the families’ difficulties concerning the communication in Libras, causing an impact, in a certain way, to the completion of the activities proposed by the teachers. Finally, it was possible to infer an effort of the school and the students to seek for interactions outside the remote teaching settings, in order to expand the communication and interaction in Libras.