Licenciaturas em Música a distância: um estudo dos cursos da Universidade Aberta do Brasil

Abstract

This paper had as proposal to investigate the Distance Education Undergraduate Courses in Music offered by the Open University of Brazil (UAB) between 2007 and 2017 by means of the University of Brasilia (UnB) and Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). It questions whether the Music Professor s formation focused on basic education makes them apt to deal with Brazilian cultural diversity and to broaden the cultural capital of the students. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with teaching staff members Coordinators, Supervising Professors, both in-class and distance education Tutors and a digital survey with students, covering the undergraduate courses in Music from UAB through UFSCar and UnB. The objective was to discuss whether the needs of a Music Professor focused on basic education are contemplated in the Bachelors in Music by the UAB, which includes the multicultural perspective and focused on the accumulation of cultural capital, in addition to digital technologies are appropriate to the methodologies. After discussing the bases for musical education in the XX and XXI century, the concepts of open education, the precariousness of the tutor's work and the break of paradigms for the distance education of Music were presented. The presentation of the research has been divided in five sessions: (1) Cultural diversity in Music bachelors courses; (2) Professor s training for basic education; (3) The learning of music as cultural capital; (4) Distance learning for Music Bachelors; (5) Perceptions about the UAB. The results show that a greater effort still needs to be made so that the UAB Music Degrees contemplate the current cultural diversity and then manage to broaden the cultural capital of the students. It can be concluded that dealing with distinct cultures and uniting the nation to build a national unity requires a cultural basis to develop the training processes