It is with hands that we make the being Learning/teaching philosophy with a class of deaf students

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Fátima Sá Correia
Orquídea Coelho
António M.
Andrea Benvenuto

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Portuguese Sign Language is the first language for deaf Portuguese people. Sign language has the same language status as vocal languages and it shares the same characteristics with sign languages of other countries, namely its iconicity. An analysis of the Philosophy program in Portuguese high schools demonstrates that the goals for the teaching and learning process philosophy at this level is not only to acquire the knowledge of concepts and theories, but also the building of knowledge by the students themselves. This article argues that the cognitive linguistic problem that arises from the lack of a standard philosophical lexicon in Portuguese Sign Language can be solved, according to the research in the field, using structures of great iconicity.

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Correia, F. S., Coelho, O., António M., & Benvenuto, A. (2014). It is with hands that we make the being: Learning/teaching philosophy with a class of deaf students. Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, 42, 27-41. https://doi.org/10.34626/esc.vi42.272
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Correia, F. S., Coelho, O., António M., & Benvenuto, A. (2014). It is with hands that we make the being: Learning/teaching philosophy with a class of deaf students. Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, 42, 27-41. https://doi.org/10.34626/esc.vi42.272