Education as a Path: For an Active, Creative, and Inventive Mastership in Deaf Education

Abstract

This article aims to draw a reflection on learning and on the relationship with the schoolmaster in classrooms in which deaf students learn through interpretation processes, i.e., with the presence of educational interpreters. The article develops from theoretical contributions of French philosophy aligned with issues posed in the field of education, more specifically on the deaf education within inclusive spaces. School scenes will be drawn as articulating components of the theory; hence, analyses were developed throughout the entire textual production. Two literary works, The ignorant schoolmaster by Jacques Rancière and The inventive schoolmaster by Walter Kohan, were presented to illustrate figures of teachers who beget creative encounters with their students, in which they learn, teach, create, and build themselves. These two mastership experiments announced, aligned with the hybrid position the educational interpreter occupies in the school, were used as space for dialogue to rethink the educational process and the learning as being part of the singularity.