This article analysis the potential of a sound-based approach to music education in developing diverse and plural learning pathways in non-formal education contexts. The study was conducted through a collaborative action research project carried out at the association Sonoscopia, as part of the exploratory phase of a wider six-year project. The data was collected over 15 sessions during the school years 2...
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Recent research in Music Education and Music Psychology has established important connections between music and children’s wellbeing (Hallam, 2015, 2016; Hallam, Creech & Varvarigou, 2017; Smith, 2021). Consequently, several researchers have highlighted the need to implement more inclusive and democratic practices in formal and non-formal educational contexts, involving all children in participatory and mea...
This workshop is based on the pilot project “Sound Hunters: Towards a Pedagogy based on Listening and Sound Exploration in Early Childhood”, that the authors are implementing in a non-formal educational context in Portugal. The workshop aims to sensitize participants to sound phenomena and discuss the meanings that are usually attributed to music and “music making”, by inviting participants to do a Sound...
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In Portugal, music education in general schools is still considerably tied to practices based on instrumental performance related to Orff instruments and the soprano recorder, listening-based activities, and theoretical issues. Creative activities such as music composition remain, therefore, outside the scope of many music lessons in Portuguese classrooms. Thus, quite often, pupils feel disengaged from music ed...
In recent years, and in an attempt to move towards a more inclusive and democratic Music Education, some scholars have criticized hegemonic Eurocentric approaches to music teaching and learning, suggesting instead a departure from sound and sounding phenomena as larger categories that might incorporate children’s diverse trajectories and life experiences. Following this initial quest, in this paper we aim to in...
Esta comunicação pretende trazer à discussão a ideia de “Som como rizoma”, no sentido de dar uma contribuição à perspetiva de uma Educação Musical “rizomática” (Lines, 2013; Ferreira, 2015; Veloso, in press), enquanto possibilidade para um fazer musical centrado na diferenciação pedagógica e na pluralidade de caminhos possíveis em contextos educativos que trabalhem com crianças. Esta discussão será construída a...
Desde meados do século XX que o campo da Educação Musical se debate com uma questão que parece fundamental para repensar como se poderá, no presente e no futuro, desenvolver e sustentar esta área de estudos nas escolas públicas em geral, pertençam elas ao ensino genérico, ou ao ensino especializado: Como evitar a “alienação” (Green, 2008, p.90) que tantas vezes ocorre entre alunas e alunos relativamente às prát...