REFLECTIONS ON THE TEACHERS’ TRAINING

Expectations And Previous Formation Of Music And Visual Arts’ Teachers

Abstract

This work searches for a reflection on the arts teachers’ formation from a specific reality: the Bachelor Courses of Music and Visual Arts from the Ponta Grossa University in Paraná State, implemented in 2003. The research was accomplished in 2005 — 2006 with 70 academics from both courses focusing three open questions: expectations on the course, background knowledge and previous training in arts and the perspectives on the teachers’ practice. The methodological concepts came up from the idea that the universal — politics to the teachers’ training, the role and the context of the teachers into the capitalist society, and the singular — the bachelors’ manifestations about their expectations and previous formation are compounds of the same complex and contradictory reality which should be investigated in its dialecticism.