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Contexts of music education: primary school children’s opportunities and motivations in music
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This paper examines primary school children’s self-perceptions of their
participation and learning in the broad range of opportunities that are available to them
within music education at Portuguese institutional and cultural levels. The main findings
were gathered from two studies carried out in two phases (year 1 and 2): the Pupil
Questionnaire study and the Pupil Interview study. In this paper, we will explore four
issues: children’s musical activities, both in school and outside school; the influence of
children’s participation in extracurricular musical activities at school on their selfassessments
of their musical development; changes occurring in children’s musical
activities as a function of their participation in extracurricular musical activities, and their
attitudes and beliefs about music.
Findings has shown that musical participation in the different contexts of music education
seems to be an activity participated in only by a minority of those involved in this research.
One of the alarming finding across the sample, relates to the children’s level of musical
participation in most school activities as they tended to decrease in frequency in year two.
Most children’s did not participated in many other musical activities at school or outside
school before participating in the established extracurricular activities. In fact, those seem
to provide children with wider opportunities to participate in music, generating musical
development and learning, as well as positively influencing children’s self-assessment of
their ‘own musical development’, attitudes and beliefs about music. Most children began
enjoying their school more and evidence supported the fact that taking part in those musical
activities positively affected these children’s identification with school music lessons as
they moved from grade 3 to grade 4.
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In L. Mata, F. Peixoto, J. Morgado, J. C. Silva & V. Monteiro (Eds.), Actas do 12.º Colóquio Internacional de Psicologia e Educação: Educação, aprendizagem e desenvolvimento: Olhares contemporâneos através da investigação e da prática (pp.673-680). Lisboa: ISPA - Instituto Universitário
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Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada