A prática musical nas oficinas do Programa Mais Educação: um estudo em duas escolas da rede municipal do Natal/RN

Abstract

The proposal for this present work was imagined as a result of a research made by the group of studies and research of music (GRUMUS) of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), which, upon verifying how the teaching of music happened in public city schools in Natal - RN concluded the extracurricular musical practice was very strong. Such musical practice happened through music workshops ran by the More Education Programme (Programa Mais Educação), which as stated by its managers, obeyed what was determined by statute nº 11.769/2008. Some aspects as programme management, monitors' pedagogical practice and students' learning through the music workshops' classes were highlighted as relevant itens for research and were the main topics of this study. Hence, we mean to comprehend how this music insertion occurred through the workshops ran by the More Education Programme set in a school context. Using a qualitative approach, we made use of a multicase study as research technique which took place on two public schools ran by the city in Natal, meaning to answer the following question: in which ways the music classes ran on the More Eduction Programme are inserted in a school environment? To reach that answer, data collecting tools, structured observation, informal and semistructured interviews were used. Works of authors such as Cavaliere (2002;2007;2010), Moll (2010;2012), Penna (2011;2012;2013;2014), among others, served as theoretical background for the building up of this paper. We conclude that the musical practice developed on schools happened as a secondary activity, being directly influenced by the way the programme was managed, as well by its monitors' pedagogical practice and by the students' own conception of the music classes. We believe that, once consciously developed, the musical practice at the workshops can contribute significantly for the students' human formation.