O campo de pesquisa em educação musical da Universidade Federal do Ceará: a praxiologia desvelando a formação de um campo

Abstract

From the political conjuncture that culminated in Law nº 11.769, the courses of music in higher education in Brazil were expanded. In this way, there is some stability from the field of Music Education and, consequently, from the field of research related to educational-musical contexts. Indeed, in Ceará, the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), since 2007, has set up three higher education courses in Music and in the Music Teaching Thematic Axis (Etem), belonging to the Education, Curriculum and Teaching Line (Lece) of the Graduate Program in Education (PPGE) of the Faculty of Education (Faced) of UFC. Acting as a student, teacher or researcher in the Degree in Music at UFC, Campus Cariri, and in the aforementioned graduate program (PPGE from Faced/UFC), I was able to observe the relevance of Etem for the formation and consolidation of a field of research in Music in Ceará. Therefore, I define this work as a study on the formation of the field of research in Music Education outlined by Etem. As a theoretical reference, I use the concepts of field, habitus and capitals, developed by the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, as well as the reflections (by this and other authors) that deal with the processes of autonomization of the field. As it is part of my object of study, I present Bourdieusian praxiology as a methodological contribution, understanding it as capable of revealing the structures that operate in the field of research in Music Education at Etem and are responsible, to a large extent, for inculcating in its agents a certain habitus. It is understood that, conversely, these structures can also be modified by the dispositions (habitus) of these same agents. It is this complexity that presents itself in the locus of this work. Supported by the reflective character of Bourdieusian praxiology, qualitative research is used, as one of its premises is to understand the processes of formation of social contexts and agents, that is, to understand the field. This is how the qualitative conception approaches the referential Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical/methodological approach. In this sense, some data were collected by the insertion of the researcher as an agent/subject of the studied field, including interviews, class notes, participation in qualification boards and defenses, resembling what is configure as participant observation. Other information comes from theses and dissertations produced by Etem and Prof-Artes, which established themselves as documentary sources essential for the development of this research. With these data, we performed two analysis procedures: an initial one, carried out for the second qualification and called pre-analysis, and another made for the final writing of the thesis, which proposes to respond to the wishes of its researcher. That said, anchored in the theoretical/methodological contribution adopted and experiencing the field from the actions as an agent/researcher, the objective of this research, namely: to analyze the formation of the research field in Education UFC Musical from the implementation of Faced's PPGE Etem. With that, it was confirmed the following thesis: Etem was the element of redefining the field of research in Music Education at the Federal University of Ceará.