The sociodescursive imaginary of flute teachers in the Minas Gerais State Conservatories of Music.
transverse flute; Minas Gerais State Conservatories; sociodescursive imaginary
The State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, counts with twelve Music Conservatories in its Educational system. They are maintained and funded by the Minas Gerais State Education Secretariat, and they stand out in the nation by integrating music teaching into the public education system. The conservatories attend to thirty thousand music students in the State of Minas Gerais, from which eleven thousand are attended directly by the conservatories and the other nineteen thousand are attended in cooperation with regular public schools. The conservatories in Minas Gerais State, since their creation during the 1950’s, play important roles such as training musicians and promotion of arts, especially the music. These institutions, located in almost every region of the state, offer professional training on various music instruments, including the flute. The main purpose of this study is to analyse the sociodescursive imaginary built by the conservatories flute teachers about their own flute teaching.Considering this purpose, this research was based on the semiolinguistics of Patrick Charaudeau (2016), in which the sociodescursive imaginary is understanded as an speech engendering of social groups. This sociodescursive imaginary is organized in coherent thinking systems, which generate values and develop the role of social justification and create collective memories in this group. Based on data analysis, we seek to identify the reconrecy of discursive patterns and the level of flute teachers adherence to specific discourse patterns. Therefore, we believe we can identify the teacher’s comprehension aspects of their own flute teaching, by the means of their speeches of description, discrimination, classification and values. The characterization of the teachers was done following the identity configurations of Vasconcelos (2001). The results shows that teachers identities with this profile, which helps us to understand their sociodescursive imaginary on their speeches. We hope this work can enrich the discussion about the flute teacher activities and their teaching on the Conservatoires of Minas Gerais, Brazil