MEDICALIZATION AND DEAF EDUCATION: THE CASE OF INES BY TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

Abstract

The process of medicalization of deafness has in Education a rich field of discourses and practices. We present narratives of teachers and students of the National Institute of Deaf Education (INES) in which we perceive the medicalization being operated. This is an excerpt from the research for thesis in education that sought to understand the insertion of deaf as teachers in INES. In the case study, we interviewed active and retired teachers of the staff and students and conducted bibliographic and documentary research. We clarify how we understand the medicalization of deafness in the training proposals, highlighting how it was manifested in INES afterwards. Refusing medicalization in deafness means not imposing standards on the deaf.