Reflexes and reflections on mathematics education and inclusion from a class for the deaf and one deaf-blind

Abstract

This paper, made in qualitative approach built from literature review and the audiovisual records retrieval from the research of a mathematics teacher in a unit specialized on deaf education in the city of Belem/PA, in 2008, aims to reflect on the recognition and acknowledgment importance of individuality and the need to find a new form of communication that allows an interaction for the socio-educational process from a situation in mathematics class involving deaf students and one deaf-blind student. The text consists on three parts that present reflections on mathematics education and the inclusion of excluded students from a minority group generally excluded by society itself, with the example of Ana, a deaf-blind student, in a deaf student class. The results on the reflections show that it is necessary to know about communication and to build an interaction, in order for the inclusion to happen in any social and educational environment, especially in mathematics classes.

Keywords

• educação matemática
• educação inclusiva
• surdos
• surdocego