Gestão de sala de aula na educação musical escolar

Abstract

This research is concerned with the classroom management practices in school music education. In this work, by classroom management involves the teacher's actions directed towards influencing and/or modifying the student's behavior in order to establish or maintain favorable conditions for learning. This element of the teaching practice is investigated in this work through classroom observations and interviews with three Music or Art Education teachers working at the public school system in Porto Alegre-RS. Three classroom observations were done for each teacher while the interviews were developed to question them about their perceptions of the effects and the source of the practices that were observed. Thus, the main question that guides this research is how music teachers influence students' behaviors with the intention to create or maintain a favorable environment for performing their pedagogical activities at school? The research aims to investigate how music teachers manage interpersonal relations, space and time within the classroom in order to create conditions so that music can happen at school. For this purpose, I use as references to reflect about the classroom management role in teaching practice works from theorists such as Walter Doyle, Clermont Gauthier, Phillipe Perrenoud and Maurice Tardif and to discuss about power relationships and classroom history works from Michel Foucault, Marcelo Caruso and Ines Dussel. The work consists of an introduction which defines the research problem and the concepts to be used, followed by a chapter devoted to the theoretical debate on the topic of classroom management. The second chapter describes the methodology chosen and applied throughout the research while the third is dedicated to the presentation and analysis of the data generated from the field work. The last part is devoted to concluding remarks.