AN ICT-BASED APPROACH TO IMPROVE THE PEDAGOGY OF MUSICAL ARTS EDUCATION

Concerning music, there are two kinds of public education in Portugal. Within the musical arts education, the pedagogy is unique, being an individualized and personalized teaching compared with music education, which is more generalist. This pedagogical uniqueness and the continuous transformation and need to adapt the contemporary society to the digital era, have contributed to a wider range of possibilities to explore between teacher and student, bringing an emerging paradigm: the reformulation of curriculums, establishing a pedagogy founded on complementary technological contents to the continue teacher mentoring synchronously and asynchronously. In this work two exploratory areas were analysed: the use of mobile applications for musician teaching and training and the continuous learning through an online platform. The research was made within a universe of 15 students of a semiprivate arts school in 2014/2015. The evaluation of the results was made qualitatively and quantitatively, using questionnaires, surveys, interviews and performative observation of the participants. The observational study ran during 24 lessons divided into two categories: 12 classroom lessons taught using the selected multimedia tools and 12 lessons taught through the online platform as a pedagogical continuity during school holidays. The results showed that the use of mobile applications allows students to improve their performance, mainly in the auditory training field, musical training and proprioception of the student to a higher detection and correction of errors made during instrument study. Moreover, the use of an online platform for continuous learning had a clear positive impact on the student' intrinsic motivation to study during their school holidays.