A importância da Língua Brasileira de Sinais (Libras) no processo de ensino: aprendizagem de alunos surdos na Educação Física Escolar

Abstract

This research aimed to highlight the importance of the Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS), in the teaching-learning process, of deaf/hearing impaired individuals, in school physical education classes and from this understanding the reality experienced both by physical education teachers, as well as by these specific students, mentioned above. Considering that the decree of the federative laws of Brazil, number 5.626/2005, in its Art. 3, included LIBRAS as a mandatory curricular discipline in teacher training courses, it is understood that, before that, higher education institutions, had no obligation to offer this discipline. The type of research used in this study was qualitative, through field research, which occurred through online questionnaires. This research had 50 participants: 12 deaf people and 38 physical education teachers. From the information collected, we analyzed the deaf person's view of the Physical Education teacher and also the challenges that professionals in the area face to teach these students in specific. Through the field research conducted, we identified that the teachers who were formed in the years before the sanction of the decree, were not able to communicate through the Brazilian Sign Language, and simultaneously found that deaf/hearing impaired students presented some learning difficulties, caused by complexity in communication, and as a consequence, at times did not obtain significant learning.