Interlocutor Teachers and Deaf Education: Inclusion in São Paulo State Public Schools

Two complementary studies were carried out: in Study 1, a material, made available by a secretary of education for collective reflection on the function of the interlocutor teacher, was analyzed in order to identify the social meaning of the professional activity; in Study 2, we analyzed the process of assigning personal sense in the activity of interlocutor teacher, in professionals of a city in São Paulo state.

Twenty-one participants were interviewed, with the support of a semi-structured guide. From the references of Historical-Cultural Psychology, the method of analysis was: empirical description of the data; elaboration of analytical categories; and return to concrete reality in order to explain it. From the Study 1, we can understand the social meaning of the activity of the interlocutor teacher as being a teacher.