Inclusive Teaching Unit: a physics teaching proposal for High School deaf students

Una propuesta para la Enseñanza de la Física para estudiantes sordos de secundaria.

Abstract

This article presents a didactic sequence developed for teaching physics to deaf students entitled Inclusive Teaching Unit – ITU. Such a teaching approach represents an expansion of the ideas of a Potentially Meaningful Teaching Unit – PMTU, in terms of contemplating the development of pedagogical strategies that first respect the cultural identity of deaf students. The ITU’s creation process is reported, highlighting the activities developed in it. Then, the results of applying this methodology are presented in the context of a Special School for deaf in the Rio Grande do Sul during the Covid-19 pandemic. As the main finding, it is emphasized that the participants of this research had a limited concept of the energy theme before the pedagogical intervention, essentially restricting it to electric energy. Still, at the end of the teaching and learning process, they began to recognize, albeit partially, other forms of energy and created signs to name two of the most explored forms of energy in the didactic sequence. Finally, the successful aspects are highlighted, and which can be improved, as well as some possibilities of application of this methodology to other topics of the curricular component of Physics and different contexts of special education, highlighting the possibility of building new ITUs, such as the presented in this article.