Abstract

MARIANO, Fabiana Leite Rabello; FREIRE, Ricardo José Dourado  and  FREIRE, Sandra Ferraz de Castilho Dourado. DoMi-BEBÊ: Instrument for observing musical expressions of infant and toddlers in learning contexts. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2021, vol.46, e43121.  Epub Mar 12, 2024. ISSN 1984-6444.  https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644443121.

This article presents the path of re-elaboration and description of a pedagogical instrument for the observation and to follow the musical expressions of infant and toddlers, named currently as DoMi-Bebê-Evidence of the musical domain of babies and young children. Its first version was designed to be used in musical learning contexts based on Edwin Gordon's Musical Learning Theory (MLT). The proposal aims to contribute to the improvement of teachers’ practices, regarding observation and reflection on music aspects and social interactions within the processes of music learning. Evaluation is considered as a means of promoting children's learning, and beyond, as part of a process that involves aspects such as the quality of the environments, pedagogical proposals, and teacher training. The results refer to the theoretical review and expansion that supported the first version of the instrument. Three works by Edwin Gordon’sregarding Music Learning Theory (MLT), were analyzed and categorized using the content analysis program Atlas.TI8. Categories were established after theoretical body. Guides the restructuring of the instrument aspects of MLT, as well as of the processes of initial communication in toddlers and of evaluation in early childhood education, especially about the methodologies in participation. The theoretical approaches were adequate to establish criteria and restructure the instrument, and it is still premature to confirm them, before their empirical evaluation with the target audience, in direct observations or video analysis, to be carried out in the next stage of the study.

Keywords : Babies; Musical Development; Evaluation.

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