Ver ou não ver, eis a reação: quebrando barreiras no ensino de química para pessoas com deficiência visual através da experimentação.

Abstract

The Chemistry teaching has been socialized through traditional approach in the most part of scholar communities in which has shown effective results as a teaching methodology. For students who has some visual impairment, it’s needed to create new teaching ways according to this reality for an effective learning. This work aims to conceive to visual impaired students to acquire Chemical knowledge through the experimentation. The research was developed with students from the 9th year at educational level, which has students aged between 7 and 14, with an inclusive education at “Instituto Hélio Góes”, a school which is supported by “Sociedade de Assitência aos Cegos (SAC)”. The theme used was “Sensation Chemistry”, a way to context the Chemistry mixtures and its separation methods. Some experimental classes were done at the “Universidade Federal do Ceará” to create a link between the University and the school. To investigate the pedagogical reality of the students was made a research to base the experimental actions of this study which revealed that teachers feel insecure about Chemistry teaching for blind people. Students reported that they need to have more experiments in their classes, more didactic materials and that teachers depend on specialized educational services. Our findings revealed that these experiments made classes interesting, bringing new conceptions about Chemistry in daily student’s life specially for impaired students. This work integrates a beginning of the Chemistry learning democratization in the city of Fortaleza according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.