摘要：This article discusses the trajectory of educating deaf people in recent years based on articulation
of the document ―What education we deaf people want‖ – proposed and written by a group of deaf
leaderships – with two research projects conducted with deaf and auditive teachers involved in
educating deaf persons. By crossing the research studies and the above document, we are
proposing a ―dialogue‖ in which similarities and dispersions help us to enumerate the
impossibilities in educating deaf people, using as thematic references: deaf characteristics, their
curricular implications and sign language, among others. Our analyses include the education of
deaf persons in the field of Cultural Studies and Deaf Studies, which see deafness not as a
deficiency, but as a difference established through visual experience which produces a specific
culture, mediated by the use of sign language. The education of deaf people is kept inside an arena
of fights for senses in which the deaf difference is contested, permanently needing to be
underscored as a trait present in educational spaces. It is not our intention to give an account of
those discussions, but to put them on the agenda and to contribute toward constructing educational
policies for deaf people.
关键词：Education of deaf people – deaf fights – curriculum – cultural differences
