‘BY THE LIGHT OF THINE EYES’:

A PERSPECTIVIST AUTOETHNOGRAPHY ON DISABILITY AND PERCEPTION LEARNING

Authors

  • Ceres Karam Brum

Abstract

This article presents some results of the dialogues I have been carrying out between the Anthropology of Education (especially in the area of an anthropology of learning) and the Anthropology of Perception, with the aim of understanding how visual perception is configured in people with nystagmus and monocular vision. In this autoethnography I reflect on my experience as a visually impaired person, analyzing perception from an ecological and phenomenological perspective as an educational process of situational learning about being in the world. The analysis of disability and perception that I intend to carry out dialogues with the notion of disability as a way of life (Diniz, 2007; Mello, 2019) and with the perspective of Viveiros de Castro (2018), proposing an approach that invests in understanding difference as a way of life viewed by disability.

KEYWORDS:
Perception. Autoethnography. Perspectivism. Learning.

IMAGE: Photograph of the authoress’ eyes. Authoress: Ceres Karam Brum (2023).

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Author Biography

Ceres Karam Brum

Full Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Federal University of Santa Maria

IMAGE: Photograph of the authoress’ eyes. Authoress: Ceres Karam Brum (2023).

Published

2024-02-29

Issue

Section

Dossier Anthropology and/of Education