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ABSTRACT
ANDRADE, Lucila Prestes de Souza Pires de. Learning music in the choral singing:
interactions between young people in a community of practice. 2011. 100f. Dissertation
(Mestrado em Música – Área: Educação Musical) – Universidade do Estado de Santa
Catarina. Programa de Pós-graduação em Música, Florianópolis, 2011.
This dissertation is an ethnographic research seeking to understand how social interaction can
contribute to the development and music learning in the youth choir. For this, the chosen
research object was the Youth Choir of the Adventist Institute of Education of Santa Catarina.
The reference used is based on the concept of community of practice, as proposed by Lave
and Wenger (1991), from which the learning occurs from interactions between people who
perform the same activity, the practice being primarily responsible for this learning. The work
seeks to understand how the musical practice of students encompasses their past and current
musical experiences. Then, the study devotes to understanding how social relations between
members of the community of practice of the Youth Choir influence the musical development
of the singers in order to exchange musical experiences that happen daily in that context.
Finally, from the perspective of the interviewed students, the research reflects on musical and
extra-musical learning experiences offered by the choir and how this learning occurs, from the
social perspective. The results confirm the importance of social interactions as motivators and
promoters of musical experiences that result in learning and development, and suggest the use
of this resource in music education.
Key-words: Music education. Choral singing, Musical Learning. Community of practice.
Youth.
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