NARRATIVES OF PEOPLE WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENT, WHAT DO THEY TELL US? REVERBERATIONS IN THE GRUPO ESPERANÇA VIVA
Music Education. Special Education. Inclusion. Music and visual impairment. Musical, Academic, Human Formation.
The present work falls within the field of Special Music Education in an inclusive perspective, aiming to analyze the aspects that favor the processes of musical, academic and human formation related to students with visual impairment from the Grupo Esperança Viva. As specific objectives, it was intended to identify guiding aspects in the processes of musical training of students with disabilities of the Grupo Esperança Viva; to identify attitudes in the academic environment that favor a musical education, from an inclusive perspective, in the Grupo Esperança Viva; analyze experiences, paths and narratives that promote an academic and human formation of visually impaired students of the Grupo Esperança Viva and, based on the biographical narratives shared by the visually impaired participants of the Grupo Esperança Viva, the elaboration of an e-book as a final product. In this sense, it has as a research question: to what extent do the experiences and learning of the Grupo Esperança Viva reverberate in the musical, academic and human formations of students with visual impairment? Knowing that Process-Person-Context is something intrinsic and inseparable and that the view of disability permeates the field of culture, disability is understood beyond the injury and impediment, but from the interaction that the person has with the barriers, and in view of issues of diversity and identity. The research is characterized as qualitative, with the writing of the work characterized by shared biographical narratives. The production of data was carried out through the conversation circle, with the Grupo Esperança Viva as the locus of investigation, with 7 participants who have visual impairment in the group. 4 conversation circles were held and data analysis was organized into three thematic axes: attitudinal changes and visibility; Grupo Esperança Viva as a possibility of musical training, and search for protagonism and recognition. The results show advances in the culture of inclusion of the School of Music of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, but also reveal barriers in the academic environment that compromise the fundamental right to quality education. It is expected, with this work, to enable critical reflection on the importance of a careful look at diversity.