Histórias de vidas surdas: percurso formativo e inserção no mercado de trabalho

Abstract

Through the life history methodology, this work seeks to present the trajectory of Deaf people, Libras users, from elementary school to job market insertion. It seeks to understand the barriers and challenges encountered in this process, giving voice to these stories' protagonists: Deaf people. This thesis fulfills its objective for being a pioneering work that used the aforementioned methodology with Deaf people, having its analysis material collected through videotaped interviews and having their speeches analyzed in the mother language (Libras), with only a few fragments being translated into writing for the printed version of this work. It was also sought to present an overview of the legislation that governs schooling and the job market with regard to the Deaf community. The future results of the analysis of the signaled speeches thrill and reinforce the need for public policies and attention to teachers' education, as other professionals, from/to the Deaf, as well as the need for family involvement in their life course as in their sign language learning.