A presente dissertação tem como objetivo analisar as narrativas de professores de surdos sobre a escrita da língua de sinais (ELS), que é o sistema de registro escrito da Língua Brasileira de Sinais. Para isso, foram realizadas entrevistas narrativas com nove profissionais que trabalham em escolas de surdos. A construção desta dissertação se deu entre os anos de 2011 e 2013 e durante o trabalho contatei com as escolas que tinham alunos surdos matriculados buscando aquelas que utilizavam a ELS em suas práticas escolares. Obtive o retorno de três escolas e nelas entrevistei professores e equipe diretiva. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida na perspectiva dos Estudos Surdos e dos Estudos Culturais em Educação, campos a partir dos quais utilizo os conceitos de narrativa, identidade, diferença e cultura, dialogando com autores como Hall (2007), Silva (2009), Perlin (2005), Stumpf (2005), Zappe (2010) e outros. A ELS é a escrita visual da língua de sinais e se situa na história da educação de surdos muito recentemente. A partir das respostas das entrevistas, foram feitos os seguintes agrupamentos temáticos: a importância da ELS; ELS como estratégia ou produção surda? e ELS no currículo escolar: surdos empoderados. / The intention of this dissertation is to analyse the narratives of deaf teachers about sign writing (SW). SW is the written system of the Sign Language. To achieve that, narrative interviews with nine different professionals that works in schools for deaf were made. The data was collected between 2011 and 2013 and, during the work, I searched schools that had deaf students enrolled, seeking those that use SW in their school practices. Three schools answered me and I interviewed their teachers and directive board. The perpective adopted in this research was the Deaf Studies and Cultural Studies in Education, and I use the concepts of narrative, identity, difference and culture that are in these perspective, using authors like Hall (2007), Silva (2010), Perlin (2005), Stumpf (2005), Zappe (2010) and others. The SW is the visual writing of the sign language and is part of the recent history of deaf education. Taking the answers of the interviews as an starting point, some thematic groups emerged: the importance of SW; SW as an strategy or deaf production? SW in the school curricula: deaf empowered.

Esta dissertação tem como objetivo identificar algumas expressões de comunidades surdas através do humor. O instrumento mais utilizado para esta pesquisa é uma ferramenta da internet que vem sendo usada pelas comunidades surdas do mundo inteiro, o youtube. A pesquisa tem como proposta valorizar as produções surdas em língua de sinais para que estas sejam registradas, evitando que se percam informações sobre a cultura surda e trazendo contribuições para a cultura surda. Verifica-se que a produção de vídeos entre os surdos expõe questões igualmente pertinentes às comunidades surdas mesmo quando se tratam de países distantes. Os vídeos, em número de 20 (vinte), foram coletados entre março de 2008 até abril de 2010. A partir das noções de comunidade, de Bauman; de identidade, de Hall e da evidente necessidade de registro das produções dos surdos, percebe-se o quanto os vídeos analisados carregam marcas da vida e da experiência dos surdos e da língua de sinais. A relevância deste tipo de investigação é no sentido de perceber quais marcadores culturais são mostrados em relação aos surdos, o que os próprios surdos registram como parte de sua cultura e qual o estatuto da língua de sinais em um meio de comunicação como a internet; que mais do que comunicar, produz um modo de ser surdo. / This thesis aims to identify some expressions of deaf communities through humor. The most commonly instrument used for this research is an Internet tool that is being used by deaf communities in the whole world: youtube. The research proposal is to enhance the deaf production in sign language in ways that they be recorded, preventing them from losing information about deaf culture and making contributions to the education of deaf. It appears that the production of videos between deaf people also exposes issues pertaining to deaf communities even when dealing with distant countries. Videos by number of twenty (20) were collected from March 2008 to April 2010. Based on the notions of community, Bauman, of identity, of Hall and of the evident need for registration of deaf’s production, you realize how the analyzed videos bear marks of life and experience of the deaf and sign language. The relevance of such research is in order to understand which cultural indicators are shown in relation to the deaf, what do the deaf people register as part of their culture and what is the statute of sign language in a mean of communication like the Internet, which does more than communicate, produces a way of thinking.

Com o propósito de investigar a manifestação das produções culturais dos surdos em histórias que são contadas em Libras, o foco da pesquisa é a análise da forma como os surdos vêm apresentando e construindo a Literatura Surda, com foco na língua de sinais. A partir disso, os objetivos são desdobrados na análise das temáticas e do uso da língua de sinais, ou seja: verificar quais histórias os surdos têm contado, como são caracterizadas essas histórias e quais são os temas apresentados, e analisar o uso da língua de sinais e os recursos expressivos utilizados. A base teórica foi buscada nos Estudos Culturais e Estudos Surdos, em autores como Hall (1997), Karnopp (2006, 2010), Quadros (2004), Klein e Lunardi (2006), Sutton-Spence (2008), Lopes e Thoma (2004), Perlin (2004), Silveira (2006), Strobel (2008). O material empírico que subsidia a investigação foi obtido através das atividades desenvolvidas por alunos do Curso de Licenciatura em Letras-Libras, ensino à distância, da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Optei pela coleta de materiais produzidos (filmados, disponíveis em DVDs) na disciplina de Literatura Surda e, além disso, realizei entrevistas que subsidiam a análise dos textos produzidos em Libras, verificando o depoimento dos alunos sobre as histórias selecionadas, o uso da língua de sinais e dos recursos expressivos utilizados. As produções analisadas se dividiram em traduções e adaptações de histórias conhecidas, incluindo personagens surdos, procurando marcar uma produção da cultura surda. / Aiming at investigating the manifestation of deaf cultural production in stories recounted in Libras, the research focuses on the analysis of how deaf ones manage to introduce and construct the Deaf Literature emphasising on the sign language. From this, objectives are unfolded when analysing themes and use of the language sign, that is, checking which stories deaf ones have recounted, how these stories are characterised and what are the themes deaf ones have presented, and analysing the use of the language sign and its expressive resources used. The theoretical base comes from the Cultural Studies and Deaf Studies in writers such as Hall (1997), Karnopp (2006, 2010), Quadros (2004), Klein andLunardi (2006), Sutton-Spence (2008), Lopes and Thoma (2004), Perlin (2004), Silveira (2006), Strobel (2008). We have found the empirical material supporting the investigation in activities students attended in a Libras Language Programme and in distance education at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. I have chosen to collect produced materials (films on DVDs) at the discipline of Deaf Literature. Furthermore, I made interviews supporting Libras text analysis, checking testimony students gave about selected stories, sign language use and its expressive resources used. Productions we have analysed were of two kinds: translations and adaptations of known stories, including deaf characters, seeking to highlight a deaf culture product.

A presente dissertação tem como objetivo analisar as narrativas de professores de surdos sobre a escrita da língua de sinais (ELS), que é o sistema de registro escrito da Língua Brasileira de Sinais. Para isso, foram realizadas entrevistas narrativas com nove profissionais que trabalham em escolas de surdos. A construção desta dissertação se deu entre os anos de 2011 e 2013 e durante o trabalho contatei com as escolas que tinham alunos surdos matriculados buscando aquelas que utilizavam a ELS em suas práticas escolares. Obtive o retorno de três escolas e nelas entrevistei professores e equipe diretiva. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida na perspectiva dos Estudos Surdos e dos Estudos Culturais em Educação, campos a partir dos quais utilizo os conceitos de narrativa, identidade, diferença e cultura, dialogando com autores como Hall (2007), Silva (2009), Perlin (2005), Stumpf (2005), Zappe (2010) e outros. A ELS é a escrita visual da língua de sinais e se situa na história da educação de surdos muito recentemente. A partir das respostas das entrevistas, foram feitos os seguintes agrupamentos temáticos: a importância da ELS; ELS como estratégia ou produção surda? e ELS no currículo escolar: surdos empoderados. / The intention of this dissertation is to analyse the narratives of deaf teachers about sign writing (SW). SW is the written system of the Sign Language. To achieve that, narrative interviews with nine different professionals that works in schools for deaf were made. The data was collected between 2011 and 2013 and, during the work, I searched schools that had deaf students enrolled, seeking those that use SW in their school practices. Three schools answered me and I interviewed their teachers and directive board. The perpective adopted in this research was the Deaf Studies and Cultural Studies in Education, and I use the concepts of narrative, identity, difference and culture that are in these perspective, using authors like Hall (2007), Silva (2010), Perlin (2005), Stumpf (2005), Zappe (2010) and others. The SW is the visual writing of the sign language and is part of the recent history of deaf education. Taking the answers of the interviews as an starting point, some thematic groups emerged: the importance of SW; SW as an strategy or deaf production? SW in the school curricula: deaf empowered.

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O caso estudado constitui-se em análise acerca do ensino oferecido a surdos de uma escola da rede estadual de Manaus, denominada Escola Estadual Augusto Carneiro dos Santos (EEACS), que tem como documentos norteadores o Projeto Político Pedagógico, o Regimento e a proposta curricular bilíngue. Tal proposta tem como base legal o Decreto Federal 5626, de 22 de dezembro de 2005, o qual assegura que os alunos surdos tenham uma educação bilíngue, ou seja, uma educação pautada no ensino da língua de sinais como língua de instrução para a aquisição da língua portuguesa na modalidade escrita. O objetivo definido para este estudo foi compreender de que forma as práticas de ensino desta escola são efetivas no sentido de valorização do indivíduo surdo quanto às suas peculiaridades e especificidades, em respeito às suas diferenças linguística, identitária e cultural. Para tanto, foi feita uma contextualização histórica e política da educação no Brasil, além da descrição da rede estadual de educação de Manaus e da EEACS. Visando ao desenvolvimento de um trabalho pautado no papel da gestão escolar, optamos por uma pesquisa qualitativa, um estudo descritivo e uma pesquisa bibliográfica sobre a educação para surdos. Esta pesquisa utiliza observação do cotidiano escolar e entrevista como instrumentos para coleta de dados. Diante da observação e análise dos dados, percebemos que, por falta de capacitação de alguns professores em língua de sinais e inexistência de um sistema de avaliação adaptado ao surdo, a concepção de educação bilíngue, por parte dos atores envolvidos no processo educacional, se mostrou superficial, distanciando-se do que é apresentado nos documentos que embasam o trabalho da escola. Frente a isso, a pesquisa pretendeu desenvolver um Plano de Ação Educacional (PAE) voltado para uma educação com base em uma perspectiva bilíngue. Para isso, utilizaremos autores que abordam a temática, como Perlin (1998), Skliar (1998), Guarinello (2007), Stürmer (2009), Gesser (2009), Sá (2011), Silvério (2014), dentre outros, além dos fundamentos legais. / The present study was developed in the extension of the Mestrado em Gestão e Avaliação da Educação of the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. The case studied is an analysis about the education offered to the deaf students of a school of the state network of Manaus, called Escola Estadual Augusto Carneiro dos Santos (EEACS), which has as guiding documents the Pedagogical Political Project, the Regiment and the bilingual curriculum proposal. This proposal has as its legal basis the Federal Decree 5626, of December 22, 2005, which ensures that deaf students have a bilingual education, in other words, an education based on the teaching of sign language as a language of instruction for the acquisition of the Portuguese language in written form. The objective defined for this study was to understand how the teaching practices of this school are effective in the sense of valuing the deaf individual as to their peculiarities and specificities, in respect to their linguistic, identity and cultural differences. For that, was made a historical and political contextualization of education in Brazil, besides the description of the state education network of Manaus and of the EEACS. Aiming at the development of a work based on the role of school management, we chose a qualitative research, a descriptive study and a bibliographical research on education for the deaf. This research uses observation of everyday school life and interviews as instruments for data collection. Before the observation and data analysis we realize that, for lack of training of some teachers in sign language and absence of an evaluation system tailored to the deaf, the conception of bilingual education, by the actors involved in the educational process, has showed itself as superficial, distancing itself from what is presented in the documents that underpin the work of the school. Against this, the research intends to develop an Educational Action Plan (Plano de Ação Educacional - PAE) facing an education based on a bilingual perspective. For that, we will use authors who approach the subject, as Perlin (1998), Skliar (1998), Guarinello (2007), Stürmer (2009), Gesser (2009), Sá (2011), Silvério (2014), amongst others, besides the legal grounds.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:48:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Taiane Santos dos Santos_Dissertacao.pdf: 1173800 bytes, checksum: dcd09cbe0ca8ed3bfd22628ca4d831a6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-14 / This dissertation has as its aims narratives about experiences in the deaf community and deaf culture. It has been inspirited on narratives that focus on the spaces captured the experiences of deaf people and the processes of formation of their identities. It focus on discussing how a specific community of deaf people are forming their identities through the experiences of life in the deaf community. The subjects were five deaf people, that through previously scheduled meetings were encouraged to tell and share their stories lived in the deaf community. There were three meetings, two in small groups ( two and three people) and the last with all members of the research. With the narrative stories it was possible to identify common but singular identities, each formed from the experiences and perceptions of the world individually. The research is in a space of socialization of memories and experiences recorded in the meetings and narratives elicited very rich in details about the constitution of identities .These processes have taken place often in the midst of conflicts and new conceptions about the importance of sign language, deaf culture, deaf community, deaf movement the association of the deaf, deaf identities , family and the deaf considered a reference for other deaf people . These categories of analysis that have emerged as brands that have strengthened the constitution of identities of research subjects. The aim with this research deconstruct historically constructed narratives that linked the deaf disability, presenting narratives through the eyes of a specific group on their stories of struggle and resistance, which help to understand the constitution of cultural identities. / Esta dissertação tem como centralidade as narrativas surdas sobre experiências na comunidade e na cultura surda. Inspira-se em narrativas que focalizam os espaços das experiências de sujeitos surdos e os processos de constituição de suas identidades, com o intuito de problematizar como os surdos de uma comunidade específica vêm constituindo suas identidades através das experiências de vida na comunidade surda. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram cinco surdos, que através de encontros previamente agendados foram estimulados a narrar e compartilhar suas histórias vividas na comunidade surda. Aconteceram três encontros, sendo dois em grupos pequenos (duas e três pessoas) e o último com todos os integrantes da pesquisa. Com as narrativas foi possível identificar histórias comuns, porém identidades singulares, cada uma formada a partir das vivências e percepções de mundo de maneira individual. A pesquisa constitui-se em um espaço de socialização de memórias e experiências registradas nos encontros e que suscitou narrativas riquíssimas em detalhes sobre a constituição de identidades. Esses processos deram-se, muitas vezes, em meio a conflitos e concepções novas sobre a importância da língua de sinais; da cultura surda; da comunidade surda; dos movimentos surdos; da associação dos surdos; das identidades surdas; da família e dos surdos considerados referência para outros surdos. Essas foram categorias de análise que surgiram como marcas que fortaleceram a constituição de identidades dos sujeitos da pesquisa. Pretende-se com esta pesquisa desconstruir narrativas construídas historicamente que ligavam os surdos à deficiência, apresentando narrativas, através do olhar de um grupo específico sobre suas histórias de lutas e resistência, as quais ajudam a entender a constituição das identidades culturais.

Cette thèse est le résultat d'une recherche doctorale inspirée par l'urgence de mettre en avant le rôle central de la langue des signes française (LSF) dans l'éducation des enfants sourds en France. La législation relative à l'utilisation de la LSF a certainement évolué depuis les années 1970 pourtant, les enfants sourds et leurs familles n'ont toujours pas d'accès à une éducation bilingue. Le statut linguistique et culturel de la communauté sourde française est toujours minoré dans le contexte scolaire et ceci constitue un obstacle au développement des politiques et des pratiques pédagogiques destinées à cette population. À partir de l'examen de ce contexte nous souhaitons élargir le débat à propos de la place occupée par la langue des signes (LS) dans la scolarisation de ces enfants, non seulement comme un moyen de communication mais en tant que source première de l'acquisition de compétences langagières, de la constitution des communautés sourdes et de la construction de l'identité sourde. L'objectif de cette recherche est de montrer comment le théâtre-éducation peut participer à ces processus. À partir d'une approche bio-psycho-social de la surdité, nous nous sommes centrée sur un exemple de pratique en théâtre-éducation pour enfants sourds, en tant que terrain pédagogique supplémentaire pour l'apprentissage de la langue des signes dans les institutions de scolarisation d'enfants sourds. Avec ces principes comme base, nous posons comme première hypothèse que le théâtre-éducation facilite l'acquisition de la LS par l'optimisation de la pratique des processus sémiogénétiques communs à la gestualité théâtrale et à la structure des langues des signes. La deuxième hypothèse porte sur l'application du théâtre-éducation en tant que terrain de socialisation en LS et de création des discours symboliques sur la surdité à partir de la perspective de l'enfant sourd. A fin de vérifier nos hypothèses, nous avons réalisé une étude de cas pour la collecte des données. Le corpus présenté dans la thèse a été composé d'abord grâce à l'observation d'un atelier de théâtre pour deux groupes d'enfants sourds, âgés entre 9 et 11 ans. Nous avons néanmoins utilisé également d'autres outils méthodologiques : participation, entretiens et expérimentation. Cette étude de cas montre alors que l'expérience d'apprentissage du théâtre constitue un terrain potentiel de mise en pratique des niveaux particuliers de l'usage de la LS, contribuant donc à l'acquisition de cette dernière. Plus précisément, nous centrons nos analyses sur les processus sémiogénétiques qui font émerger les structures de grande iconicité (les transferts) des langues des signes : l'iconicisation de l'expérience et la sémantisation du corps. Nous avançons également l'idée que l'apprentissage du théâtre permet aux enfants d'expérimenter l'inversion symbolique des normes concernant la surdité (physiologique et sociale), contribuant donc à la construction de leurs identités sourdes. Le corpus obtenu et l'analyse qualitative nous permettent de postuler donc de quelle façon l’apprentissage du théâtre peut contribuer à l'acquisition de la langue des signes et à la construction de l'identité sourde par la mise en pratique de la créativité artistique qui lui est propre. / This doctoral research is driven by the urgent need to discuss the role of french sign language in the education of deaf children in France today. Legislation on the use of french sign language has developed since the 1970's, however, deaf children and their families are still struggling to access bilingual education. The linguistic and cultural minority status of the french deaf community still battles to be accepted in the school context and this constitutes a clear barrier to the development of policies and learning practices for deaf children education. With this framework in mind we wish to extend the discussion on the essential role played by sign language, not only as a communication tool in deaf education, but as the primary source of language skills acquisition and of the constitution of deaf communities and the Deaf identity. The goal of the present research is to show how theater-education can participate in this construction. From a bio-psycho-social perspective on deafness, we turned to one example of theater-education practice destined to deaf children as a additional pedagogical space and practice for sign language in schools and institutions. With these ideas in focus we established the first hypothesis that theater-education facilitates sign language learning by encouraging the exercise of common semiogenetic processes to gesture in theater and to sign language structure. As a second hypothesis we established that theater-education can be used as an additional space of socialization in sign language for deaf children as well as an experience of discourse creation about deafness and Deafhood from the deaf child's perspective. To investigate this hypothesis we chose the case study as our data-collection protocol. The data presented in this research was obtained first through observation of one theater-education class for two groups of deaf children, ages 9 to 11. However we collected our data using different methodological phases and tools: observation, participation, interviews and experiment. This case study shows that this learning experience constitutes a potential exercise of peculiar levels of sign language learning, and more specifically the essential iconic structures of sign languages. We also advance the idea that learning theater-education enables dead children to explore the symbolic inversion of social rules regarding deafness and Deafhood, contributing to the construction of their Deaf identities. The collected data and qualitative analyses has enable us to determine in which ways theater-education can contribute to the exploration of artistic creative levels in sign language learning and deaf identity construction.

The purpose of this master’s thesis was to study literacy practices in a reading group of nine women discussing fiction in Swedish sign language. The following research questions were examined: What patterns of action have taken form in this practice and what meaning is attributed to these patterns? How can this reading group be understood in the light of Päivi Fredäng’s research on identity and cultural changes in the Swedish Deaf world? How do the participants handle using two different languages and modalities during the discussions, and to what extent can this be understood using Mary Louise Pratts concept contact zone? Finally, the last question aims to explore the reasons behind the very scarce number of reading groups in Sweden discussing fiction in sign language. An ethnographic study was conducted through one participant observation and three semi-structured interviews face to face recorded on camera, one email interview and one recorded phone interview. The interviews in sign language were translated into written Swedish. What Peplow terms a ‘mimetic’ reading practice was the most dominant way of discussing literature, whereas thematic or synthetic reading practices were less frequent.  The participants found that the reading group broadened their reading habits and that the discussions sometimes had bibliotherapeutic elements. They often discussed issues related to the oppression of women whereas questions related to Deaf people and sign language were not often discussed. The reading group could be understood in the light of the changes that the Swedish Deaf world, and society at large have gone through over the last decades. The collective Deaf identity is more frequently based on shared values concerning sign language rather than ideological standpoints. More individualized perspectives and interest-based networks based on sign language become more common. This falls under what Fredäng describes as co-culture where deafness loses its superior position in the identity. The participants’ audiological and linguistic backgrounds were diverse, only around half of them had Swedish sign language as their first language. The literacy practices were to a great extent influenced by the diversity concerning the participants’ backgrounds. Some of the informants said that one main reason for joining was to improve their skills in sign language. To others, the reading group seemed to strengthen their skills in written Swedish. One aspect of the literacy practices of this reading group was language preservation, where the participants helped each other to a more ‘pure’ sign language. Using the theoretical framework developed in New Literacy Studies, the lack of reading groups discussing fiction in sign language could be understood as a result of the literacy practices used in the Swedish Deaf education system that followed the Milan Conference that took place in 1880. The conference led to the banning of sign language in favour of oral methods. Contemporary literacy practices in the Swedish Deaf world can be traced back to these practices in the education system. Further research is needed to study literacy practices among Deaf people in Sweden, for example among younger generations that have taken part of a bi-lingual education. This is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.

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A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo verificar a contribuição da disciplina Língua Brasileira de Sinais (Libras) nos cursos superiores de licenciatura para circulação do discurso da diferença linguística e cultural das comunidades surdas. A área da surdez encontra-se circunscrita nas relações de poder e saber presentes na sociedade, nessa área observa-se a predominância de dois conjuntos de enunciados. Um deles se relaciona ao discurso da deficiência que tem como princípio a normalidade baseada nas pessoas ouvintes. O outro diz respeito ao discurso pautado na diferença linguística e cultural, cuja normalidade baseia-se nas pessoas surdas e no que circula e se produz em suas comunidades. Vinculada a esse último discurso, a Libras se tornou pauta de reivindicações dos movimentos políticos das comunidades surdas brasileiras, tem sido considerada a primeira língua nas propostas de educação bilíngue para surdos e foi reconhecida pela Lei nº 10.436/2002, cuja regulamentação se deu por meio do Decreto Federal nº 5.626/2005. Esse Decreto instituiu, dentre outras medidas, a obrigatoriamente da disciplina Libras nos cursos superiores de licenciatura e fonoaudiologia. Considerando essa normatividade, especificamente, nos cursos de licenciatura, este trabalho configura-se como uma pesquisa qualitativa que contou com a aplicação de um questionário estruturado com perguntas abertas e com a análise documental dos planos de ensino da disciplina Libras de seis docentes que ministram essa disciplina em Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) na cidade de São Paulo e região metropolitana. Por meio da análise das regularidades presentes nos enunciados dos docentes e nos dados dos planos de ensino, verificou-se que os docentes, enquanto sujeitos do discurso, afirmam um vínculo formativo e profissional com os surdos e a Libras e, em suas práticas pedagógicas, estabelecem normatividades nos objetivos, conteúdos, estratégias e exercícios que se fundamentam no discurso que se filia, predominantemente, à diferença linguística e cultural dos surdos. Esses mesmos docentes também afirmam que a receptividade da disciplina é positiva pela maioria dos discentes e alguns destes se tornam disseminadores das práticas discursivas das aulas. / The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the contribution of Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) classes in undergraduate education programs in order to circulate the discourse of linguistic and cultural difference of deaf communities. The field of deafness is surrounded by the relationship between power and knowledge widespread in society, this area elucidates the predominance of two sets of statements. One of them relates to the discourse of disability which has the principle of normality based on hearing people. The other concerns the discourse grounded in linguistic and cultural difference whose normalities relies on deaf people and about what circulates and is produced in their communities. Associated to this speech, Libras became the agenda of political movements from the Brazilian deaf communities and it has been considered the first language in the proposed bilingual deaf education and has been recognized by the Law No. 10.436/2002, whose regulation occurred by the Federal Decree No. 5.626/2005. This Decree established, among other measures, Libras as a mandatory class in the undergraduate courses of education programs and phonoaudiology. Considering this regulation, mostly in undergraduate education programs, this dissertation materializes itself as a qualitative research that included the application of a structured questionnaire with open questions and with a documentary analysis of Libras teaching plan of six teachers who lecture this class in Undergraduate Schools and Colleges in the city of São Paulo and metropolitan region. Throughout the analysis of the regularities present in the statements of teachers and teaching plan data, it was found that teachers, as subjects of discourse, state a formative and professional bond with deaf people and Libras. Furthermore, they establish normativities in the objectives, contents, strategies and exercises in their pedagogical practices, which are based on the discourse that mainly connect deafs linguistic and cultural differences. These same teachers also declare that the receptivity of the program is positive for most students, whose some has become disseminators of discourse analysis from classes.