A Constituição do intérprete de língua de sinais no ensino superior na perspectiva dos surdos: o cuidado de si e do outro

Abstract

Researches on inclusion of deaf people and the action of LIBRAS (Brazilian Sign Language) interpreter in university are recent and have raised debate, polemic and tension about a new theoretical field called Deaf Studies. The general objective of this research is to analyze the constitution of the sign language interpreter in university under the perspective of deaf people; and the specific objectives are: to investigate how deaf people´s culture conceives, apprehends, affirms or denies the constitution of the deaf person and the sign language interpreter; to identify the significances in the sign language interpreter´s formation on the communication mediation; to investigate the relations of powers and the exclusion/inclusion mechanisms that permeate the discursive practices in the university context. The research also seeks, inside the thought of Foucault, the theoretical-methodological assumptions and the archeogenealogy procedures in order to understand the power/knowledge relations, governing strategies and care of oneself and the other, present in the constitution of the deaf person and the sign language interpreter in university. Six deaf people who are graduated or still attending graduation courses in different areas in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraná have participated on this research. For the data collection, semi structured interviews filmed in the Brazilian sign language with videography resources and data transcribed into Portuguese by the researcher were used. Two great hindrances for the inclusion of deaf people in university were observed: lack of adequate methodology for teaching the official language as deaf people´s second language and poor formation of the sign language interpreter to work in university area. The results indicated the inadequacy of the pedagogical practices in university with ineffective communication ways and interaction between teacher, student and interpreter, which limit the access to knowledge through translation/interpretation and does not make any specific terminologies for this level of teaching available. This paper has verified that the constitution of the professional interpreter in university is about to be established because of the absence of his/her adequate formation, the elaboration of a professional code of ethics and the concern about political issues rather than the care for oneself and the other. This study is expected to contribute for the reflection on the speeches and knowledge of deaf people´s education, which can create a new area for the critical view of the proposal of inclusive education, whose history has been written and told under the perspective of the listeners, regardless the look of deaf people on their own education.