A sinfonia da vida: narrativa sobre a constituição do habitus docente musical

Abstract

This study is a self-analysis of the aspects that outlined my teaching training in music at Federal Teaching Institution. The research aims to analyze the trajectory of the agent seeking to unveil such aspects. It is an autobiographical procedure that seeks to describe the transformations that occurred in my career, considering familiar, social, cultural and musical aspects that influenced to a great extent, the decisions that directed me in the role of violin teacher at the Federal University of Cariri. In this sense, the objective of the research is to understand the constitution of the teaching staff habitus of a degree course in music. Thus, looking at the past of formation, the concepts of the praxisology of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu about the habitus, field, social, cultural and financial capital as a tool to illuminate this analysis are considered. Life History and Praxiology are two research traditions that help to understand this research. In this way, my trajectory demonstrates the process of acquiring a habitus that extrapolates the idea of reproduction of the existence conditions; at the same time, that this context denies my probable destiny allows me to postulate the following thesis: “the inadaptation of the primary habitus, combined with strategies and the contact with key elements in the musical field led me as agent to occupy a prominent position in this field”.