Percurso de formação musical de professor de nível técnico e superior : narrativas de experiências de vida.

Abstract

This work is the result of a qualitative research of interdisciplinary character, whose general objective was to understand how teachers of technical and undergraduate level in music established different relationships with music throughout their formative path. The empirical data analyzed result from the work plan the author was responsible for during the 2019-2020 period (PIVIC/UFPB). The methodology used was History of Life, based on interviews for collecting data with five participants, in order to understand the relationships they established with music through their studies and experiences. We have used as interpretive references studies in the area of music education and biographical studies, focusing on works whose central discussion was about the methodology of life stories. The autobiographical memory evoked in the narratives allowed the participants to revisit their trajectories, bringing, with great details, how certain moments were significant in their paths until they reached the current moment of professional activity. Hence, we analyzed how the different contexts of musical formation and performance influenced the personal relationships that the subjects built with music. The interdisciplinary purpose of the analyses allowed us to understand the subjective meanings that each of them established with music, especially in times of difficulty, since they had to invest several years of their lives to carry out their life projects. They all started their musical studies out of a desire to play and express themselves musically. However, throughout their journey, they became involved with teaching and academic research, which was intensified in postgraduate courses. Over the difficulties of becoming professional in music,they became teachers at public institutions, at a technical or higher level. In order to conclude, all of the participants in this research had pursuit, each one, unique trajectories of study and musical formation. Therefore, each path reflected the yearnings, motivations and personal meanings built in the relationship with music - even by playing, teaching or researching -, culminating in professionalization through teaching in the area.