Escuta musical: uma estratégia transdisciplinar privilegiada para o Sentipensar

Abstract

This study aims to investigate Sentipensar, that is, the way in which feelings and well articulated thinking acquire a dimension which is capable of contemplating the needs of a multidimensional human being s broader education. The proposed Sentipensar comes from the trinomial Feel-Think-Act [in the Portuguese language, Sentir-Pensar-Agir]. In practice, it makes Integrated Learning possible, in which, emotional impact, multi-sensoriality, favorable climates and environments, among other features, enable a vivid and significant learning situation for the subject, capable of 're-enchanting' the educational process. In this study, Musical Listening is presented as an integrative activity, a privileged didactic strategy of Sentipensar, among other possible strategies. The search started with the assumption that Musical Listening through its intrinsic characteristics that affect human beings in various ways, some quite pleasant - can promote the reintegration of human dimensions and reinject organicity in the educational process, through the link between reason and sensitivity, reflexive thinking and experience. Interest in this theme began with my personal experiences and careful observation of hundreds of students who had the same kind of experience. The main focus is to discover whether the strategy of Musical Listening effectively has the power to enhance reflexive thinking, as seems to be the case, and to discover why it has such power. Historically, we are separate and distinct beings; since Descartes said "I think, therefore I am", and before him, Plato praised the world of ideas as opposed to the world of the senses, and even before Plato, the Stoics adopted as their ideal the "imperturbability of the soul by desire" (ataraxia), the body going to one side - res extensa - the soul to the other - res cogitans. These ideas proffered by great thinkers developed visions of the world that were current in their respective times, and established themselves firmly in our most intimate concepts, becoming the paradigm of Western culture for the last three hundred years. Opposing such thinkers and the strength of the processes generated by their ideas required waiting for centuries, and for the harbinger of the twentieth century when, beginning with biology, the rescue of the organicity of the whole began, and a little later, with the beginning of the scientific revolution of the twentieth century - Relativity and Quantum Theory - integrative systemic thinking was spread to all areas - from biological to social, from the infinitely small to the infinitely large. This movement, in search of totality and a unifying concept of the world, is inviting us to take a new perspective: the Eco-systemic paradigm. The journey that started in the inaccessible frontiers of science begins, slowly, to affect the life of common people in their everyday life. There is much resistance, but the first steps have been taken. The theories underlying this research prepare the way for the implementation of a new project: Complexity gives us the opportunity to deal with paradox and incorporate it; Transdisciplinarity, through open logic of the Included Third, guides the expansion of a look at the world and at the individual. Sentipensar inserts these ideas in the educational environment. All together, it leads us to the era of planetary consciousness