Fotografia como prática de enunciação : experiências vivenciadas na educação em ciências naturais para surdos, no contexto do projeto novos talentos/UFMT/Capes

Abstract

In contemporary times, the technological resources allow us to produce and broadcast a profusion of informations and images in real time. Regarding the large amounts of images produced nowadays, the photography is highlighted because it can be considered as a way of people talking about themselves to the world at anytime. This understanding motivated the accomplishment of this study, whose purpose was to analyze the experiences lived in the Project Novos Talentos/UFMT/Capes, particularly regarding the use of photography in the education of natural sciences for deaf students. The field of study was the Project Novos Talentos (PNT), developed by Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT) and sponsored by Capes. This university‟s extension project – configured as a network of conversation between students and faculties linked to several undergraduate and postgraduate courses at UFMT, and students and teachers from five elementary public schools in Mato Grosso – focused on the production of images as a way of visual registration that favors the protagonism of students in the educational process. In this study, we highlighted the participation of a specialized school in the education of deaf, called the Educational Center to Support the Hearing Impaired, which is a participant of the PNT. The theoerical framework adopted here was based on cultural studies, more specifically on deaf studies. The methodology followed the postulates of the qualitative approach of the case study type. The data were extracted from documents (project reports), observations, and semi-structured interviews with PNT practitioners. The analysis indicated that photography can be considered as a language that can improve learning in the field of natural sciences as well as other sciences that integrate the curriculum of the school. The results of this study refers to the recognition that photography enhances the deaf-hearer interaction because it is a practice of enunciation. When it comes to the education of the deaf, photography reiterates what the poet Manoel de Barros said: Images are words that we lacked.