MUSICAL EDUCATION FOR ADULTS:Social representations on age and musicalization
Musical education of adults. Social representations. Music and adulthood
This study aims to analyze adult musicalizacion seeking to understand the role of social representations in the formation of concepts, evaluations and behaviors of teachers and music students. The interest is the investigation of the symbolic dimension involved in music education process of adults and not musicalizacion process or music teaching itself. For both were interviewed students and teachers of the Federal University Music School of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). It was used the concept of social representation from Moscovici (2009) and Jodelet (2001) and as a methodology was used a literature revision related to the subject that provided the elements for the application of semi-structured interviews, as proposed by Spink (2013) qualitative research and analysis of social representations. Among the results, we find ample evidence of social representations express and explained in various academic papers over our literature, as well as evidence of social representations about the musicalizacion adults among students and teachers of the UFRN Music School.