As Ciências Biológicas na Educação de surdos: olhares e abordagens nos Encontros Nacionais de Ensino de Biologia (ENEBIO) e Encontros Regionais de Ensino de Biologia (EREBIO)

Abstract

Inclusive Education has been performing a significant role in different fields of knowledge, including Biology. Hence, the present research aims to comprehend how deaf students are being taught in the Biological Sciences classroom. To reach this goal, a bibliographic research was conducted by searching for papers published in Encontro Nacional de Ensino de Biologia (ENEBIO) and Encontro Regional do Ensino de Biologia (EREBIO), available at the SBEnBio online archive, that listed the keywords: deaf; sign language; Libras; and deafness. As the results demonstrate, since the first record in the archive (2005 to 2019), forty-five papers were published, specially in the years of 2016 and 2018, which had eight and twenty-nine articles published, respectively. The data collected indicate compliance with the law for the inclusion of Libras as a compulsory subject within teaching degrees. However, there is the necessity of reports that can help to biology majors to teach deaf students.