Prima como meio de promoção de cidadania através da música: um projeto social na paraíba

Abstract

This present paper has the intention to show how it works and the effects of the PRIMA - Inclusive Program through Music and Art has produced and contributed in it’s participants life. PRIMA is a project from Paraíba State Government with the objective of create a system of orchestras, bands and youth corals using music teaching as a human and citizenship catalyst.We tried to identify how children and adolescents feel about their social situation, when they have the opportunity of, through music, take part in a project that contribute to their growth as human beings, corroborating in their educational evolution by a critical view of social values and respect to others. PRIMA proposal is bring to the youth knowledge and cooperate to their shaping as citizens, therefor reaching the objectives that might help achieve a social transformation. The data survey was done visiting some poles at Paraiba State and interviewing some of the participants. Seeking to present how the project managers, maestros, teachers, school board, students and their families view musical education as a motivation and add acknowledgment that support the creation of a collective act amongst the students, of a critical sense and a citizen consciousness. To contemplate the objectives, an analysis of their interview and data compilation, lastly a presentation of my field discoveries.