Da ética ecológica à potência estética musical : a educação popular desenvolvida na escola família agrícola de Vale do Sol.

Abstract

This thesis had as its main objective to characterize the Popular Education developed in/by the Escola Família Agrícola de Vale do Sol (EFASOL), focusing on the analysis of the ethical and aesthetic dimensions, represented, respectively, by the categories Ecology and Music, as the school's formative purposes. The specific objectives were: to understand whether the subjects who carry out this educational initiative, including students, families and educators, who understand the concept of Ecology, perceived this ethics during their training; and also understand whether music engages with this educational perspective. The aforementioned school, where I was a teacher from 2016 to 2023, began its activities in 2014 and is located in Linha Formosa, in the interior of the municipality of Vale do Sol, in Vale do Rio Pardo, center of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In order for the objectives to be achieved, Culture Circles were held, as a methodological instrument of Freirean inspiration, as they focus on dialogue, meeting Latin American theoretical and methodological perspectives in line with the history of the school that adds up , certainly, to the Popular Education and Rural Education movements, which began in Brazil in the 1960s. I discussed and analyzed circles with students, monitors and members of the Associação Escola Família Agrícola de Vale do Sol, and, after discussing the terms Ecology and Music, I was able to understand the intricacies of the alternation pedagogy, its pillars and the school's training objective. Thus, I understood that in its daily practice, the training process of the Escola Família Agrícola de Vale do Sol, based on the pedagogy of alternation and the set of its pedagogical instruments, produces an ecological musical education without dissociating ethics and aesthetics. As a complementary result, alongside this strict thought, this thesis resulted in an “Extended Play” of four songs called “Ecological Manifesto”. This work, contrary to definitive resolution, is objective and launches other reflections, forming a poiesis.