The present work addresses issues in the area of teacher rural education course, with an
emphasis on the relevance of Libras-Brazilian sign language discipline as part of the
curriculum of the field education course-with qualification in arts and music- LEDOC and its
contributions in the lives of future teachers when they are in full exercise of teaching. We
started from the following research question, a single Libras subject with a workload of 60
hours, divided into University time and community time, will be enough for future teachers to
acquire basic pedagogical and linguistic knowledge that will provide them with skills and
competences necessary for the good care of deaf students, when they are in full exercise of
teaching? In order to answer this question, we made use of the following general objective of
our work is to understand the relevance of the Libras discipline in the training of teachers in
the degree course in Rural Education, which is anchored by three specific objectives, namely,
i) describe the pedagogical practices developed by teachers of the Libras discipline of the
field education course during university time; ii) to know the perception of the graduating and
repeating students of the Libras discipline about the workload and the format of the discipline
with the divisions in university time and community time; iii) present inputs that allow us to
infer on the need to expand the workload or even the change in the format of the Libras
subject in the curriculum of the field education course on the Tocantinópolis campus. The
methodological process is characterized as a research with a qualitative seal and bibliographic
and documentary characteristics, in addition to including a questionnaire. After discussing
theoretically in three chapters, we arrived at the results of our work, where we found that most
LEDOC students do not feel prepared to assist deaf students. It was also found that the Libras
subject contributes positively to the academic formation of future teachers, providing them
with knowledge that will be of paramount importance in the care of deaf students in regular
education, however, with this study, it was noticed that it is necessary to rethink about a
possible increase in the workload of the Libras subject.
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