GROUP PIANO TEACHING IN UNDERGRADUATE MUSIC COURSES: A STUDY ABOUT THE TEACHER’S KNOWLEDGE
group piano teaching, teachers’ knowledge, teaching training program
This research aims at understanding how teachers’ knowledge is constructed in the context of group piano teaching in undergraduate courses in the northeast of Brazil. This is a multi-case study (YIN, 2001; TRIVIÑOS, 1987) with four teachers which used a self-administered questionnaire and a semistructured interview as instruments for data collection. The work brings two literature reviews: one is of Brazilian research that addresses group piano teaching in higher education, resulting in a table organized by categories, and the other results from a survey with articles on the knowledge of teaching in music education. The theoretical path is being built from the studies of Lee Shulman (1986; 1987) and Donald Schon, bringing concepts such as Knowledge Base and Epistemology of Practice to structure the analysis of the interviews. The mapping carried out found 22 public institutions of higher education: 19 of them offer one or more academic subjects in the group piano teaching format. This version of the text also presents the first case and some topics that will be discussed in the analysis chapter which is still under construction.