COLLECTIVE TEACHING OF BOWED STRING INSTRUMENTS AT THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ: THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF FEMALE LEADERSHIP

Abstract

The present study analyzed the female representativeness of six faculty members from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) who work in the development of activities related to bowed string instruments on the Sobral and Fortaleza campuses. The research addresses aspects that permeate different contexts, including musical habitus, education and training, professional practice, and their reverberations in society. To guide the research trajectory, a qualitative and quantitative approach was adopted, examining the teaching field of music programs in public higher education institutions, with particular attention to Federal Universities and Institutes in Brazil’s Northeast region. To understand the academic space occupied by these faculty members, bibliographic sources and semi-structured interviews conducted with the professors participating in the study were employed. An epistemological pathway was thus outlined to highlight the trajectories of the faculty members across the campuses, drawing on Bourdieu’s praxeology and grounded in specific aspects of their life histories. Based on the analyses, it was found that the faculty members presented here represent an important phase in the teaching of bowed string instruments at UFC, contributing to the pillars that constitute the university: teaching, research and outreach, which, in turn, reverberate in social development within the communities where they operate.