Saberes e práticas linguísticas em educação ambiental - um estudo com surdos no município de Santa Helena - PR

Abstract

Environmental Education (EE) aims to understand and act on the part of the population in the face of environmental problems and is based on implementing actions and strategies in a collective and organized way. This implies everyone's participation in the socio-environmental mobilization process, as outlined by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to build a sustainable human society. However, participation by deaf people can be hampered by a lack of adequate resources and accessibility. Thus, the present study aims to analyze the linguistic knowledge and practices relating to Environmental Education of deaf people living in the Municipality of Santa Helena – PR. This is a bibliographical research, based on a case study of an exploratory and descriptive nature and the methodological approach is qualitative and quantitative in nature, through the application of a questionnaire to collect data with deaf people as the target audience. This research is based on the issue regarding the lack of materials on the topic of EE for deaf people in order to include this audience, often excluded from society due to lack of knowledge and/or accessibility, so that they can contribute to decision-making regarding issues socioenvironmental issues of the community, the country and the planet. From the results, it was possible to verify the lack of accessibility faced by the deaf population of Santa Helena and raise suggestions for activities and materials that would be of interest to this community, resulting in the production of inclusive and educommunicative didactic-pedagogical materials aimed at EE with the intention to serve as a pedagogical tool to raise awareness and disseminate practices that promote sustainability and enable the inclusion of the deaf community in socioenvironmental issues.