Music Practices in the Rural Education Licentiate Degree Program at the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT) in Tocantinopolis: A Study of Teacher and Student Perceptions

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to understand how music teachers and students enrolled in the Rural Education Licentiate degree program (LEDUC) at the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT) in Tocantinopolis (Brazil) perceive the music practices learned during teacher training. For this purpose, students answered a questionnaire and teachers were interviewed. The data analysis reflected the expectations of students and teachers, the music repertoire, and the degree in which they identified with the objectives of Rural Education from the construction of a dialogue mainly in line with the thinking of Paulo Freire and Boaventura de Sousa Santos. This work celebrates the role of LEDUC-UFT in proposing a teacher’s training course in Art and Music for the people of rural areas, a unique initiative in Brazil. The results lead to an understanding that the music education practiced in Rural Education requires a methodological approach capable of breaking the paradigm of the abyssal line of traditional European musical knowledge and that there is an ongoing process of construction and reconstruction of the project and its subjects to provide for a libertarian, post-abyssal music program.

Keywords

• linha abissal do conhecimento musical. repertório. formação docente.