Proposta de Química Orgânica para alunos com deficiência visual: Desenhando prática pedagógica inclusiva

Abstract

The present research addresses the need for a new thinking about the teaching and learning process of Chemistry contents for students with visual impairment who are inserted in the regular school, but in many moments, it doesn’t have access to scientific knowledge due to lack of curricular adaptations and methodological approaches. With regard to Teaching Chemistry, which presents itself as a discipline that requires interaction with graphics, models and images, they are in the adaptations of didactic materials and in t he continuous training of teachers who are in the conditions necessary to guarantee a real inclusion of students with visual impairment in this science class. Based on these concerns, the main objective is to investigate the use of alternative materials that can be used in the discipline of Chemistry to contribute to the teaching and learning process of blind students enrolled in the 3rd year in high school in Campina Grande City - PB. As qualitative research and action research, an interview, participant observation and a didactic sequence with contents related to Organic Chemistry are used as instruments of data collection. The didactic sequence, based on the concepts of Antoni Zabala, is divided into ten stages, in which the blind students knew and interpreted the contents from the touch and the hearing. In this way, we developed pedagogical materials to provide the molecular representation of the organic structures previously known by the students only by the theory, being: Braille, high relief and three - dimensional representation. Supported by the content analysis of Laurence Bardin was interpreted to the category present in the speeches and actions of the participants of the research. So, it is observed that the chemical thinking presented by these stude nts is based only on the theoretical description, since they during their school life did not have contact with alternative materials to establish the bridge between theory and practice. It is valid to suppose that if there was, in chemistry classes, a greater adaptation, not only curricular and evaluative, but methodological, the students with visual deficiency could assimilate the contents worked in said science.