Historicizing primary bilingual elementary school for the deaf

This text presents an overview of deafness and education. It aims to present the education for the deaf from historical aspects and legal texts, to the current scenario of bilingual education, anchored in Cultural Studies and Deaf Studies. It is an exploratory and bibliographic study, based on theoretical sources such as books, articles and legal texts that are relevant to the subject matter. The results point to the countless challenges of education in Brazil, such as sparse professional qualification of teachers, low salaries, high rates of grade retention and evasion in schools, among others. The education of the deaf seems to suffer from those same influences, in addition to the constructed beliefs and the social imagery, focusing on the disabilities of deaf people, a fact perceived even through legal textsEl texto teje un panorama sobre la sordera y la educación. El objetivo es presentar la educación para sordos desde aspectos históricos y textos legales, hasta el escenario actual de la educación bilingüe, anclada en los Estudios Culturales y Estudios Sordos. El estudio es de cuño bibliográfico exploratorio, utiliza como fuentes teóricas libros, artículos y textos legales. Los resultados apuntan los innumerables desafíos de la educación en Brasil, como la calificación profesional, bajos salarios, índices elevados de repetición y evasión, entre otros