Rap in professors education: aesthetic education and its effects

Abstract

This article presents an intervention-research mediated by music, especially Rap, in a context of continuous professors’ qualification. Initially, the text ref lects art and Rap conceptually, remarking esthetic education and considering a historical-cultural perspective. After that, it is presented the research journey which, held nine meetings with a male professor and a female professor, both self-declared black persons. The article analyzes two of those meetings, in a thematic pillar, when the musical mediation took place, in the first moment with songs indicated by the participants, and later, with songs suggested by the researchers. The transcription was made in the analysis process, the fluent interpretation of information, encoding themes and the definition of thematical categories connected to the literature. In the results and discussions there are two categories: 1) Songs, journey perceptions and ethical-political expression; and 2) the Rap, expression of the sensible and the power of transforming art. The racial matter was present across the professors’ narrative, being part of the analysis process and the reflection of the relationship between esthetic education and racial relations, distinguishing the need that the professors’ qualification space is connected to the fight against social inequalities and against racism.