EDEUCAÇÃO MUSICAL PARA CRIANÇAS COM AUTISMO: compondo caminhos à prática docente em Castanhal-PA

Abstract

The quality of music education in the early grades and the challenges of inclusion reveal the importance of providing training opportunities. This study aimed to build a training proposal for Music teachers to teach students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Early (Childhood Education and, to this end: (a) to format a training proposal for Music teachers with a focus on Teaching Music for children with ASD in Eariy Childhood Education; (b) apply training for musie teachers working in Castanhal/PA; and, (c) evaluate its impact on the course participants' practice during the rescarch. This is an experimental study with a Technical-scientific basis, cross-sectional and with a theoretical-practical focus, within the methodological parameters of action rescarch. The sample obtained by the non-parametric sampling technique includes 3 teacher trainers and 13 course participants, Five modules were formatied (Autism Spectrum Disorder and human development in childhood; MUSICAL EDUCATION AND AUTISM: materials and techniques for teaching music and inclusion; Edwin Gordon's Music Leaming Theory applied to Autism; MUSICAL EDUCATION AND INCLUSION: Planning and cvaluation; and, Superviscd Practice in Teaching Music to Chiláren with ASD). À website and six protocols were developed for data collection: Socio- demographic questionnaire and survey of the students knowledge; Structural assessment of the MusiTEA training modules; Questionnaire for validation of the MusiTEA website; Form for evaluating and adjustment of the MusiTEA training modutes; Lesson plan evaluation sheet (Supervised Practice); and, Supervised Practice Assessment Sheet (MusiTEA) - Recorded MLT Activity. The modules, protocols and website were validated by pairs of independent judges until obtaining a minimum of 80% agreement. The collected data on the use of exploratory analysis, descriptive analysis, as well as the Wilcoxon Test with null and attemative hypothes: HO-0.5 and 0.5 and 0.5 and 0.5, a = 0 05 (adopted 5%) and significance level of 95%. The Excel program was used for descriptive statistics, creation of tables, graphs and data cleaning, The good performance of the course participants was observed between the application of modules 1 and 2 (T * = 46.5 > Títabled) = S, rejects HO). However, there were mo improvements between modules | and 3 (T * = 17.5 > T(tabled) = 0, does not reject HO); registering a “fall” between the application of modules 2 and 3 (T * = 10 > Títable) = 2, does mot reject HO). In comparison with modules 1 and 4, the latter showed better performance (T * = 37 > Títabled) = 8, rejects HO). The performance oscillations support that HO should not be rejected in favor of HI, and it cannot be said that the course improved the course participants' performance, although the descriptive data reveal the substantial scope of the training. The retum of participants to teach classes in a hybrid format during the occurrence of module 3 proved to be one of the impacts of the Pandemic scenario. It s suggested to replicate the study 'with a larger n and review the modules.