O ensino de óptica para pessoas com deficiência visual

Abstract

Brazilian legislation seeks to guarantee the school inclusion of children with special needs. However, effective inclusion requires modifications within traditional education in order to allow the development of students' autonomy in classroom activities, as well as their socialization and enabling learning conditions. Given this, this dissertation aims to develop, apply and evaluate a material for teaching optics to people with visual impairments. Therefore, multisensory models were built to facilitate the teaching of light propagation, including the processes of reflection, refraction and, finally, the dispersion of white light. The application in a school context was developed with a visually impaired student during extra­class hours. We concluded that the developed materials were very well received by the student, who was able to explore them autonomously and that they were of great importance for understanding the concepts worked on. As a low­cost material, simple to manufacture and that can be used by students with or without visual impairment, we hope that this work can be used in the teaching of optics as well as a resource that allows the inclusion of the visually impaired in school.