Educação musical à distância: formação continuada de docentes da educação infantil

Abstract

The present study had as general objective to investigate possible contributions in the course of perfecting the distance: the Musical language in early childhood education "for teachers of early childhood education for (re) signification of the importance of music education. The continuing education occupies a prominent position, being increasingly associated with the qualitative process of training and pedagogical practices. One of the tools that contributes to the continued training of the teacher is the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), through distance education (EAD) and extension courses, which allow the teacher lay in the musical area to acquire or improve theoretical and practical knowledge in music. Thus, the EAD approach and contributes to the access to individual training in their teaching practice. For both, the methodological procedures tuned to a qualitative approach, research-action, with a view to the researcher play the role of observer, part of knowledge and interpreting the phenomena, giving them a real meaning. As subjects of the research were selected six students entering the course of improvement in distance mode of West University Paulista-Unoeste. For collecting the data of this research were conducted four phases: theoretical framework; Profile and Questionnaire Questionnaire Prior Knowledge; Monitoring during the course (analysis of evaluations of modules) and, lastly, know Questionnaire, after completion of the course. The results showed that it is possible, through distance education, contribute to the knowledge, because the mode offers quality learning a large number of people, of different formations and belonging to different social classes, demographically distant from each other.