Repository logo
 
Publication

Unveiling teachers' beliefs on visual cognition and learning styles of deaf and hard of hearing students: a Portuguese-Swedish study

dc.contributor.authorRodrigues, Filipa M.
dc.contributor.authorRato, Joana R.
dc.contributor.authorMineiro, Ana
dc.contributor.authorHolmström, Ingela
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-22T09:07:48Z
dc.date.available2022-02-22T09:07:48Z
dc.date.issued2022-02-15
dc.description.abstractVision is considered a privileged sensory channel for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students to learn, and, naturally, they recognize themselves as visual learners. This assumption also seems widespread among schoolteachers, which led us to analyse the intersection between teachers’ beliefs on deaf and hard of hearing students’ academic achievement, visual skills, attentional difficulties, and the perceived importance of image display in class. An online survey was designed to analyse the beliefs of the schoolteachers about the deaf and hard of hearing students learning in educational settings from Portugal and Sweden. Participated 133 teachers, 70 Portuguese and 63 Swedish, from the preschool to the end of mandatory education (ages 3–18) with several years of experience. The content analysis and the computed SPSS statistical significance tests reveal that surveyed teachers believe that deaf and hard of hearing students have better visual skills when compared with their hearing peers yet show divergent beliefs about visual attentional processes. Within the teachers’ perceptions on learning barriers to DHH students, the distractibility and cognitive effort factors were highlighted, among communicational difficulties in class. Conclusions about the prevalence of learning misconceptions in teachers from both countries analysed, corroborate previous studies on neuromyths in education, and bring novelty to Deaf Education field. The work of translation of scientific knowledge, teacher training updating, and partnership between researchers and educators are also urgently needed in special education.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0263216pt_PT
dc.identifier.eid85124680334
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.pmcPMC9116990
dc.identifier.pmid35167582
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/36773
dc.identifier.wos000802227200004
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.titleUnveiling teachers' beliefs on visual cognition and learning styles of deaf and hard of hearing students: a Portuguese-Swedish studypt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.issue2pt_PT
oaire.citation.titlePLoS ONEpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume17pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
37327209.pdf
Size:
1.32 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format