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Chapter 22
Cartography in Studying the Environment:
Bilingual Practice Aiming at the Inclusion
of Deaf Pupils
Tiago Salge Ara ´ jo and Maria Isabel Castreghini de Freitas
Abstract When it comes to Special Education, there are countless proposals,
debates and disagreements. In Brazil, the fact is that special schools have been
extinguished by yielding more place to heterogeneous schools that are full of
diversity. Regarding deaf pupils, they must highlight their own language and
culture; therefore, they are ultimately required to study and foremost to develop
“a desire to integrate”. This research was mainly aimed to identify possible
methodologies and activities targeted to the deaf pupils entered into the regular
Education. Because it is a qualitative research on a school located in the outskirts of
a city in Brazil, the topic of urban environmental problems was chosen to develop
the activities of the pupils Assuming that to intervene in the problems of the
environment, at first, we must realize the place where we live in, Cartography is
an important instrument used in the activities proposed by this project.
22.1
Introduction
In 2008 I was charged to replace a professor of Geography at the municipal schools
in the region of Rio Claro, S˜o Paulo, Brazil. In one of the classes I had two deaf
pupils. The replacement period of 2 months was insufficient for a comprehensive
study. However, I had experience with these pupils. The difficulties of orientation
were combined with the infrastructure offered by the school to work with this
particular class. The special needs of deaf pupils have clearly shown during the
lessons that being included in the regular education system often does not ensure
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