Cartografando gestos escolares de surdos em Rio Bonito: entre o Maior e o menor da educação

Abstract

This study discusses the tensions between Stories, Educational Politics for the Deaf and the formal education stories of four deaf people from Rio Bonito, RJ. Historical and politically, deafness has been described by listeners and understood as an absence, a disability, a failure, that must be fulfilled by the normalization of the deaf body, especially through scholar devices. Maura Corcini claims that deafness is an invention (2006) that arises exactly in the field of senses production. She understands deafness as a cultural feature, which does not mean to remove it from the body, but that this invention comes from the political senses we create: deafness can be invented just as a condition of disability. It means that the person who cannot hear needs a certain medical education that supplies her needs or may be invented as a visual experience (Skliar, 1998), in which other linguistic forms develop and leverage. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1977) present the concept of minor literature as a device to study the work of Franz Kafka. The attempt here is to promote the use of this concept, operating with the notion of minor school stories, as a device to think of emerging gestures and clues from the formal education of deaf people, as stories of resistance to forms which are hegemonically invented and, through this invention, what educational politics for the deaf have been put into practice in Rio Bonito.