Class directors in articulated music teaching: perspectives and experiences

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Fernanda
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Sarmento, Teresa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.7559/gestaoedesenvolvimento.2014.264

In the Portuguese school system, form tutors (FT) are an intermediate education management structure. The form tutor is responsible for a position of coordination and orientation with a threefold function: relationship with students; relationship with the student's family and relationship with other class teachers. The joint teaching of music is a part of the educational system in basic education. It is optional and provides musical and instrumental training to students who are interested in taking it. In order to achieve this, there is a system, subject to protocols, between general education schools and schools specializing in teaching music. There is also the position of FT in specialized schools and it also includes a threefold function, much like FTs in the previously mentioned teaching modality. However, these FTs have the additional role of representing music teachers at the class council which is held at the general education school. Therefore, they are under the direction of FTs who work at the general education school. Thus, in these cases, both FTs have a fourth joint area, between the music school and the general education school, which makes the relationship between them even more complex. Before we present and discuss data, we will approach the concepts of leadership and educational coordination as these are mentioned very often throughout this analysis and are the interpretative basis in this analysis. This communication is based on the analysis of empirical data obtained from the testimonies of FTs regarding their representations and experiences in leadership and the coordination of teachers among schools in which there is a joint teaching system. The aim of collecting narratives, lead us to reflect on the difficulties and opportunities of the (non)existing intermediate leaderships.