A formação de professores de surdos para a EJA: Uberlândia de 1990 à 2005

This research is a part of the line of History and Historiography of Education in the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Uberlândia. The theme of this study is the training of teachers of Youth and Adult Education (EJA) who worked with the deaf. Thus, the objective of this study was to understand if there was and how was the training of teachers who worked with deaf students in the EJA modality from 1990 to 2005 in Uberlândia. The time frame had its starting point at the year of 1990, considering that this year the Alternative Education project began, which rescued young and deaf adults who were out of school because they did not find training after the 4th grade of the former 1st grade that met their needs, or because they dropped out before completing that series. This project started the structuring of Special Education in the municipal network of Uberlândia, which until then was non-existent. As the final period, the year 2005 was defined, due to the enactment of Decree no. 5,626 on December 22, 2005, which regulates Law no. 10,436, of April 24, 2002, which provides for the Brazilian Sign Language - "Libras", causing changes by instituting Libras as a mandatory subject in teacher training courses. Our hypothesis is that there was an educational proposal for deaf students in the researched period, but not a teacher training project that would meet all the needs of these deaf subjects. The methodology for carrying out this work was structured from the theoretical contribution in micro-history, having as research methodology the Oral History and gestural-visual, that is, a derivation of the Oral History that takes into account the specificities of the deaf researcher. As a result, we verified that the Education of Deaf Youth and Adults found space in the municipal education network of Uberlândia at first within the Alternative Teaching project that later, in 1996, came to constitute the Legal Basic Program for Alternative Education. It w...