A complexificação do leitor/escritor surdo : implicações cognitivo-ontológicas.

Abstract

This paper consists of a research carried out with deaf students, users of Signal Language as the first language. Understanding how a deaf individual becomes a reader/writer of a second language (L 2), of the audio oral sort, considering the emotions present in the school and life experiences, that contribute or not for the sense construction through the complex passage from the Signal Language (L1), of the visual spatial sort to the Portuguese language was the subject that I have chosen to research. This research is qualitative and has been performed through observations and interviews from the bibliographic review about the chosen subject. The students are from the fifth to eighth grades of Escola Estadual de Ensino Fundamental Gaspar Bartholomay, a public school in the City of Santa Cruz do Sul - RS. Throughout this study I have applied the Biology of Cognition to the researches on Deaf Education From the phenomenon of the knowledge in the autopoiese theory, I try to understand, according to Maturana‟s view, the culture of the deaf, recognizing the individual as a culturally produced being that becomes human in the language, through the individual/environment structural connection and the interactions that are resultant from consensual coordination of actions. Besides Maturana‟s theory, I display a brief study on the education of the deaf and the educational methods to recognize how this education has been structured and which have been its implications concerning to deaf individuals‟ school and life experiences. I have analyzed the narratives of research subjects based on the Biology of Cognition theoretical referential, on the recurring patterns existing in them, as follows: the suffering, autopoiese, the complexification and the structural coupling where one can behold aspects as struggle for life and life affirmation.