It is with hands that we make the being

Learning/teaching philosophy with a class of deaf students

Authors

  • Fátima Sá Correia Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto (Porto/Portugal)
  • Orquídea Coelho CIIE – Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas, Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto (Porto/Portugal)
  • António M. CIPES – Centro de Investigação de Políticas do Ensino Superior, Universidade do Porto (Matosinhos/Portugal) e Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto (Porto/Portugal)
  • Andrea Benvenuto École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, Université Paris 8 (Paris/França)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34626/esc.vi42.272

Keywords:

Portuguese sign language, teaching Philosophy to deaf students class, philosophy

Abstract

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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Published

2014-08-01

How to Cite

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

Issue

No. 42 (2014): New issues in education research

Section

ARTICLES | Open call

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Copyright (c) 2014 Fátima Sá Correia, Orquídea Coelho, António M. Magalhães, Andrea Benvenuto

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