TO KNOW THE COLORS WITHOUT EVER HAVING SEEN THEM

ABSTRACT:

Teaching colors to blind students has been a challenge for physics teachers. However, we insist on trying to do so, considering that all senses are mobilized in the learning process and that concept formation is a sociolinguistic process. In this manner, the sense of sight, lacking in our case study, can be replaced by others in multisensorial learning. We evaluated imagistic content about the color concept and ascertained its multisensory origin in a free association test with blind and sighted students. Although any other sense could ever make a blind person visually perceive colors, we conclude that the concept of color depends not only on the sense of sight, and that other associations are involved in their significance construction. Thus, it is possible that teaching colors to blind students can stop being such an unbeatable challenge.

Keywords:
Total blindness from birth; Colors; Multisensorial learning.