A formação de professores de acordeom do Rio Grande do Sul: narrativas (auto)biográficas

Abstract

In this study, I investigate training path ways for accordion teachers from different cities in Rio Grande do Sul, through the analysis of their life stories, told through narratives, having as main goal the unraveling of their training experiences. The participants attended higher education institutes in Music, and hold either a BA or a teaching degree, however, not in the accordion specialty, and some of them did not finish their higher education. Therefore, the teachers interviewed did not have a specific degree to teach accordion, a context from which the following questions emerges: how do the processes of learning to teach occurred for the accordion teachers participating in this research? The teacher training in question emerges from the perspective of the self-training proposedby Josso (2010). Considering that I am an accordion teacher, there is, in this research, an on going dialogue between the story of my life and those of the teachers who shared their stories with me, this being the nuclear center of this study, that meets the biographical and autobiographical studies with the oretical support from Nóvoa (1992) and Josso (2004, 2010). From a qualitative approach, the narratives were chosen though the methodology of Oral History, using semistructured interview. From the analysis of the data, it is possible to notice that there are trends in training for accordion teachers in Rio Grande do Sul. The cultural meanings, the transmission of a feeling of belonging, and the feeling of identity emerged as critical factors in the professional choice of the interviewees. This study intended to engage in dialog with the meanings that music brought throughout the professional development of the teachers in the study, beginning in childhood, and permeating a variety of prejudices and training difficulties that could finally lead to professionalization. Different learning contexts emerged in the search for the participants formation. This variety, which, in its turn, is expressed as unpleasant shocks, is positive in the training of teachers. Even though the focus of the research had been in the experiential training of accordion teachers, it was possible to analyze some of their strategies and teaching methodologies, such as the importance give to the musical code, to the teaching materials and to the use of technologies.