LICENCIATURA EM MÚSICA NA MODALIDADE EAD: um olhar sob a perspectiva dos egressos

Abstract

Education, in its broad sense, both formal and non-formal, has always been one of the pillars of any development and modernization process. This process necessarily involves education. The research was carried out within the Postgraduate Program in Management and Regional Development - PPGDR, of the Centro Universitário do Sul de Minas - Unis-MG, which is interdisciplinary and aims to produce knowledge and train human resources in the Academic Master's course, in Research Line II, Formative Processes and Development. This line of research aims to explore the theoretical and practical dimensions related to training processes in general, geared towards development and the reduction of social, economic, political, and cultural inequalities, and towards regional management and development. This research has as its theme the perspective of graduates in Licentiate in Music Modality EaD (Distance Education). It is an applied nature research with a qualitative approach, exploratory and descriptive methodology and aims as objective to reflect on issues within regional and human development, in the process of training music educators in the context of the course mentioned above. There were used questionnaires, interviews, bibliographical survey, and analysis of collected data. The obtained data was received the treatment of software ATLAS.ti® for the interviews. The total research population was forty-five graduates, with a return of thirth-three completed questionnaires. A semi-structured was also carried out with nine graduates. In this way it was possible to investigate approaches or departures within conceptions of these graduates, regarding the teaching processes and learning processes of the aforementioned course, evidenced in previous research. About researching problem, we present the following question: What are the perceptions from graduates of a Degree in Music the distance education modality regarding their learning process? According to Ribeiro (2013, apud Baker, 2012), “Investigating the paths that students take to learn music in the online environment is an important step towards developing future pedagogical practices, as well as informing other practical approaches to training music teachers”. The results obtained indicate that this type of education (EaD) had contributed to the better achievement of graduation. The perception of graduates regarding the performance of the teacher and tutor can be considered as one of the factors for their retention and completion of the course.