| dc.description.abstract | This work presents the result of observing the influence of theater in education
and in constructing the identity of a deaf subject in the components of 'Grupo Teatro
Surdo' (Deaf Theater Group) formed by students of 'Escola Estadual de Educação
Especial Reinaldo Coser' (State School of Special Education Reinaldo Coser) in
Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. From the fundaments of Cultural
Studies, Deaf studies and Theater in Education, it is analized some relations between deaf people and listeners during the creation and presentation of the theater play
'Construindo a Identidade' (Building the Identity), created by deaf people and directed
by an educator without graduation in Special Education and all the situation involved
in the process like the communication as an educator/listener and the deaf student
with the audience and the student/deaf actor. The information here presented was
collected through structured interviews, speeches and spontaneous testimony of
deaf people's teachers, members of the deaf community, family members of the
teachers, theater professionals related to 'ASPAC' (Santa Maria's Association of
Acting Professionals) and those people who watched the group's work. For a better
understanding of the questions pointed out in the speeches and testimonies
collected, studies were necessary about the History of Theater in education and
about the construction of identities and deaf identities. Next, facts and testimonies
with comments are shown and, to conclude, detecting possible changes from the
experience in the involved areas in the research, that is, the deaf students, their
teachers, parents and the audience of this deaf's theater work. | |
