ABSTRACT
This article aims to highlight the education of the deaf in the city of Chapecó (SC), explaining the structural theoretical foundations and the processes of teacher education for this specificity in the period 1996 to 2016. The question that guided the investigation is: How was the education for the deaf developed from 1996 to 2016 in the municipal education network of Chapecó and what are the structuring theoretical foundations in teacher training processes? The research is characterized as qualitative in a post-structuralist perspective. Three municipal education secretaries participated in the study, who exercised the function for the longest time in each municipal administration during the researched period. In addition to documentary research, semi-structured interviews were conducted, recorded, transcribed and organized into thematic groups. The empirical materialities were examined through discourse analysis with Foucaultian references. The study shows that truths about deaf education are established at each time and that theoretical-methodological approaches, adopted in broader historical and geographical contexts, are also manifested in the investigated region.
Keywords:
Special education; deaf education; inclusive education