A surdez como ciência no Brasil: parâmetros de organização e representação do conhecimento

Abstract

This thesis addresses the conceptual, historical and institutional aspects of deafness. The work intend to investigate deafness based on conceptual parameters and information representation aiming to characterize Deafness as a domain of scientific knowledge in Brazil. Specifically, it analyzes general systems of knowledge organization to identify thematic representations of Deafness, and recognizes conceptual and thematic contributions in the context of scholarship, research and published literature on the domain of Deafness, seeking subsidies for systematization as scientific knowledge in Brazil. This thesis uses as theoretical-conceptual reference of knowledge organization and representation, domain analysis and interdisciplinarity. As a methodology, it analyzes deafness as a knowledge domain using 4 approaches by Hjørland (2002). This work adopts, for data analysis, the qualitative-quantitative methodologies, making use of the Iramuteq system. Interdisciplinarity is shown both in the thematic representations of international knowledge organization systems and in the elements of the Brazilian science on deafness. It elaborates and describes the Deafness science mandala as a meta-representational map of this scientific domain. This thesis concludes that the dynamics and processes of teaching, research and literature published in the field of Deafness transcend the disciplinary boundaries and constitutes a complex phenomenon.