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    This document discusses a research project analyzing the Portuguese Orquestra Geração (OG) community music program. The OG was inspired by Venezuela's El Sistema program and aims to promote social inclusion through collective music practice for children and adolescents. The research examines the program's socially inclusive goals and how musical meaning is achieved. Preliminary findings point to a need for more systematic teacher training and evidence to support the program's social inclusiveness.

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    This document discusses a research project analyzing the Portuguese Orquestra Geração (OG) community music program. The OG was inspired by Venezuela's El Sistema program and aims to promote social inclusion through collective music practice for children and adolescents. The research examines the program's socially inclusive goals and how musical meaning is achieved. Preliminary findings point to a need for more systematic teacher training and evidence to support the program's social inclusiveness.

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    This document discusses a research project analyzing the Portuguese Orquestra Geração (OG) community music program. The OG was inspired by Venezuela's El Sistema program and aims to promote social inclusion through collective music practice for children and adolescents. The research examines the program's socially inclusive goals and how musical meaning is achieved. Preliminary findings point to a need for more systematic teacher training and evidence to support the program's social inclusiveness.

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    Gmota@ese - Ipp.pt Jacosta@ese - Ipp.pt Anacruz@ese - Ipp.pt: Graça Mota Jorge Alexandre Costa Ana Isabel Cruz

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    This document discusses a research project analyzing the Portuguese Orquestra Geração (OG) community music program. The OG was inspired by Venezuela's El Sistema program and aims to promote social inclusion through collective music practice for children and adolescents. The research examines the program's socially inclusive goals and how musical meaning is achieved. Preliminary findings point to a need for more systematic teacher training and evidence to support the program's social inclusiveness.

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    Graça Mota

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    Jorge Alexandre Costa
    [email protected]
    Ana Isabel Cruz
    [email protected]

    College of Education
    Polytechnic Institute Porto

    Growing through playing: the orchestra as an inclusive community music project1


    Paper presentation

    In Portugal, the creation in 2007 of the Orquestra Geração (OG) was inspired by the El
    Sistema. Like the Venezuelan project, it builds its action upon a perspective of social
    inclusion through involvement with collective musical practice, primarily directed at
    children and adolescents of greater educational and social vulnerability. While most of
    what is known of Sistema-like projects, through publications and presentations in
    international forums, offers a descriptive approach to this type of musical intervention,
    the present research aims at the construction of systematic and critical knowledge
    about the Portuguese OG project around two main axes: 1. Its socially inclusive target,
    and 2. the ways through which musical meaning is achieved in this particular
    community of practice. This presentation represents a preliminary report from a wide
    ranging research based on the following data: questionnaires sent to all music teachers
    of the OG’s 15 nuclei and one case study of a nucleus in the outskirts of Lisbon. The
    research methodology calls for a politically implicated approach, taking arts-based
    inquiry as a significant contribution made by artists to the understanding of social life.
    The case study’s collected data includes socio-demographic characterization of the
    children involved in the project, interviews with the school director, the OG
    coordinator, music teachers, and the school-community mediator, as well as
    observations of music classes and orchestra rehearsals. Issues such as music teaching
    and learning methodologies, in terms of critical points raised by the questionnaires,
    and concepts of selection and evaluation will be raised. This data will be compared

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    Project funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) from the Portuguese Ministry of Education -
    programme PTDC/CPE-CED/120596/2010
    with a body of literature that documents other-than-musical gains through
    participation in musical ensembles, among groups that tend to live in exclusion and
    social disengagement. Preliminary conclusions point out the need of a systematic
    approach to teacher training in the OG, and a more in-depth search for evidence-based
    findings that may confirm its claim of social Inclusiveness.

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