INTERAÇÕES SOCIAIS PROMOVIDAS EM ATIVIDADES EXPERIMENTAIS DE QUÍMICA EM PEQUENOS GRUPOS COM UMA PESSOA SURDA E OUVINTES

With the increasing number of deaf people in Brazilian schools, educational activities in the area of Science Education that contemplate them become increasingly necessary. Therefore, this work aims to analyze the potentialities and limits of a proposal for experimental activities in small groups for the teaching and learning processes of Chemistry in high school in a context with deaf and hearing people. The proposal was developed in a class of the 3rd year of high school in a public school and had as research subjects students from a group formed by a deaf student and three hearing students. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to analyze the initial student understandings about the deaf person and a sequence of experimental Chemistry activities to identify the social interactions promoted in the group and their possible relationships with the initial student understandings. The obtaining of qualitative information related to the sequence of experimental activities occurred through audio and video recordings. All qualitative information was submitted to the procedures of discursive textual analysis. The results indicate that the proposal was able to promote, especially, collaborative and tutorial interactions in the group. In addition, the initial student understandings about the deaf person may have influenced the social interactions promoted in the group.