Educadores Surdos no Brasil: história, formação e espaços de atuação

This research entitled Deaf Educators in Brazil: history, training and performance spaces, addresses the path of training of Deaf teachers and instructors throughout history and in Brazil and the possibilities of performance in contemporary times. Thus, the general objective of this research is to know the process of training and performance of deaf professionals in various educational spaces in Brazil. Thus, the specific objectives are: 1) Analyze the functions of the first deaf educators mentioned in history, 2) Trace the chronology of the first deaf teachers in Brazil, from the nineteenth century and 3) Present the possibilities and fields of action of deaf educators today. Regarding the methodological procedures, the research in question is qualitative and exploratory. In order to identify productions that dialogued with the proposed theme, a bibliographic survey was conducted using two databases: the Electronic Library Online Theses and Dissertations Database (Scielo) and the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD), from 2015 to 2019, totaling five years of published scientific productions. The searches were performed from four keywords: deaf repeater, deaf instructor, deaf teacher training and deaf teacher. It was performed the reading of 586 titles and abstracts of published works in the two databases consulted. This dissertation is organized into three chapters: Chapter 1, entitled The performance of deaf repeaters in the 19th and 20th Centuries, was based on Rocha (2007, 2009, 2010, 2018) and Sofiato (2011, 2016, 2018), as these authors address the performance of deaf repeaters, in the reign of D. Pedro II. In addition, several managements of the National Institute for the Education of the Deaf in different periods were addressed, as well as, the performance of deaf repeaters and internal regiments. Chapter 2, entitled Training of Teachers of the Deaf in Brazil presents the context of teacher training in Brazil, involving actions for th...