ABSTRACT
Deaf teachers even serve as the roots of Deaf schools, nourishing the children's identity development and their ability to dream of their futures. Sign language at residential schools and the significance of Deaf teachers are important for identity development, and are positive elements of Deaf education. Deaf teachers' services, roles and functions are again not well represented in published research, and require further exploration. Deaf education has been a major field of study for the last two centuries, and yet there continues to be debate on how to analyse d/Deaf education globally and how to record Deaf people's opinions about their education. Participants in both studies also secretly created their own signs to communicate with each other when out of the teachers' sight. The participants recalled other teachers who were sweet and did not yell at them if they signed – they were simply trying to follow school policy.
