Graça Mota

Polytechnic Institute of Porto | IPP · CIPEM - Centro de Investigação em Psicologia da Música e Educação Musical, Branch in the Polytechnic Institute of Porto of the Institute of Ethnomusicology - studies in music and dance

The Oxford Handbook of Care in Music Education addresses ways in which music teachers and students interact as co-learners and forge authentic relationships with one another through shared music-making. Concepts of care addressed in this handbook stem from philosophies of relationship, feminist ethics, musical meaningfulness, and compassionate musi...

This article examines the perspectives and feelings of children in the first two years of a music workshop developed with pupils from a state school in northern Portugal. The study followed a participatory action research design, with data including field notes, two group interviews with the children, children’s artefacts, such as texts or painting...

In 1966, with the Portuguese fascist regime in full effect and 8 years before the democratic revolution (25th April 1974), six young women joined a Philharmonic Band in a small northern town. Their ages ranged from 15 to 28 years old and, in a completely male-dominated milieu, these women took up places left empty by young men that either had to em...

In this article, we present part of the results from a wide-ranging research study addressing Orquestra Geração (OG), a Sistema-like project set up in Portugal in 2007. Orquestra Geração strives to bring about, through collective musical practices, the social inclusion and social mobility of children and teenagers experiencing educational and socia...

The Project Orquestra Geração was created in 2007/2008 and involves, in 2014/15, fifteen schools. Through an intensive orchestral practice, the event, inspired in Venezuelan El Sistema, aims at providing disfavored school populations with: social inclusion and mobility, contact with new cultural realities and development of instrumental practice. T...

Este artículo trata sobre la formación del profesorado de educación musical en Portugal en el contexto de la Declaración de Bolonia. Teniendo como escenario la situación económica, política y financiera, así como las complejidades sociológicas y filosóficas del momento presente, la construcción de currículos de formación de profesorado de educación...

In this paper we give an overview of relevant findings of a three years long case study that was carried out in the Madeira Island, Portugal. It addresses a thirty years old project in music and drama education in primary schools, which involves all children within the school curriculum, but also in extra-curriculum activities. The study used mainl...

Drawing on three research projects undertaken in the UK, the US and Portugal, this chapter presents evidence that considers the relationships between music-making and development of both musical and positive learning identities, and in turn how music-making contributes to the rehabilitation of people in criminal justice settings.. First and foremos...

A three-year-case study funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) from the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education was designed to study a 30-year project of music and drama in primary schools in Madeira. This article reports on the narratives of the three main figures in the project as they elaborate on its...

This chapter records the findings of an 8-year project that followed the musical lifespan development of two young women, Maria and Isabel, as they endeavoured to become professional musicians. Drawing on the theoretical underpinning of narrative inquiry, understood both as a phenomenon and as a method, the data methods and techniques used included...

The preparation of music teachers in Portugal and Brazil is the focus of this text, which aims at presenting preliminary aspects of a study in progress in the context of higher education in both countries. Inspired by comparative education methodology, the present study is investigating official documents and academic curricula offered in Portugal...

If the logos of current pragmatism regulates and places and manages, the logos of metaphor and cadence deregulates and displaces and offers a migratory movement out. Pragmatism addresses the functional brain. Metaphor and cadence address the whole imagination. An age of pragmatism without imagination, and age of postmodernism without meaning, is an...

This study was part of a research project that examined innovative practices in a primary school with an integrated arts curriculum. While the school started an expansion of its curriculum, a music teacher was hired to become part of the arts learning area. Her commitment to the overall project determines that she works in collaboration with the ot...

Este artigo aborda criticamente aspectos relacionados com o papel da Educação Musical no mundo de hoje e com a respectiva formação de professores. Revisita algumas características das práticas musicais nas últimas décadas e propõe um quadro teórico que sustente uma perspectiva de mudança. A produção de autores como Estelle Jorgensen, Maxine Greene,...

This research examined determinants of musical development of a group of 100 children in three different schools in Portugal, one of which is a specialist music school, over a period of 3 full school years from the beginning of schooling (6 years old) until the end of third grade. Relevant for this paper is the exploratory question whether observab...

Theoretical background This paper gives an overview of a two and a half ye ars study addressing the involvement of young Portugues e people with Philharmonic Bands. It looks into the w ays musical identities are constructed within a specifi c cultural and social context, the Philharmonic Band, and is, therefore, affiliated to the area of cultural a...