Resumen de Analysis of digital learning materials for music education in Portugal

Vânia Mariete Pereira Ferreira

• Digital learning materials are increasingly used by teachers and students at different levels of education. Among the generic educational problems and the social and political contradictions surrounding digital resources are the attention given particularly to those for Music Education, a fact that is addressed in this work. Digital resources currently support a variety of subjects, and they should also support students’ individual differences. They are both a stimulating and rich material and constitute an effective source of proposals to be used in the classroom context, functioning as an aid to learning and to integration of personal development to students to succeed in school. This work focuses on the analysis of digital learning materials for a concrete case: those for Musical Education in the Portuguese context. The main objective of this study was to investigate which web portals present digital didactic materials for Music Education and if these have aspects that enhance their use in the classroom. Through a qualitative methodology and using the content analysis technique, we examined the content of the available sites in depth. Among others, one of our specific aims was to determine whether digital didactic materials for Music Education existed in sufficient number and quality to represent a valid resource for use in the classroom. It should be noted that our main conclusions point out the fact that digital didactic resources for the area of Music Education are rare