Tudo que aprendemos juntos: a representação social do professor de música no cinema

Abstract

This paper aims to understand the social representation of the music teacher on the cinema, an industrial art and a mass communication medium that influences the construction of representations that affect the dynamics of society. The problematic that guides our work lies on some issues related to the professional formation as well as the socio-cultural and symbolic dimensions of the cinema: What is the music teacher’s image in the movie Tudo que aprendemos juntos? How it can influence the construction of his professional identity? In order to reflect on these questions, we adopt the Theory of Social Representations as theoretical basis of our work, based on the assumption that representations form a system whose sharing leads to the formation of a vision, a consensus, an image, an element that searches the imagination for its own place of articulation. Our object of study is the feature movie Tudo que Aprendemos Juntos, whose theme is education in our country, and whose plot revolves around a young violinist who accepts, because of financial pressure, to teach music in the favela of Heliópolis, in a project sponsored by an ONG that works with a state school. Our methodology consists of a review of the literature about the problems related to our object of study and the analysis of the film in question, also supporting cinematographic works whose main character is the music teacher. In a context of progressive devaluation and proletarianization of the teaching activity, within a continuous process of dismantling of the State, it’s important to understand the building of social representations of teacher music as part of a discourse that emphasize the “redeemer” character of the teaching and of the music, which aims, ultimately, to the individualization of possible solutions to the problem of education in Brazil.