Producciones científicas profesionalizadas de la formación de Musicoterapeutas de la Universidad del Salvador-Argentina: informe de avances del análisis y construcción de matrices de datos

Abstract

The present work is a progress report of the research project of the research processes carried out by Music Therapy Career students-graduates of Universidad del Salvador, Argentina. We start from the central question: What are the characteristics of the Graduate Theses and/or Final Integration Projects (TIFs) of the Music Therapy Degree at “Universidad del Salvador”: thematic/current areas based on the training received? Being the basic assumption that the degree theses and TIFs of the Degree in Music Therapy of “Universidad del Salvador” present greater thematic diversity in relation to the fields of application and less tendency to cover the different currents as professional epistemic frameworks.
The investigation contemplates the methodological triangulation (qualitative and quantitative) of the last five years of academic production based on the construction of data matrices that allow the analysis and completion of the research objectives: typify the thematic areas of research from the methodology and types of studies; describe the application fields of the research: clinical / rehabilitation / socio-community / educational / labor; characterize the epistemic frameworks for approaching the themes and their units of analysis; distinguish and relate the themes of the TIFs with the epistemic positions of the curriculum of the Degree in Music Therapy of the USAL. Considering Music Therapy as a discipline within the field of health that emerged in the middle of the last century in different countries, from different sources of questioning regarding problems in the approach to subjectivity. It is through the interaction between professionals in medicine, psychology, pedagogy and music, that new techniques and instruments for intervention in serious mental pathologies, differentiated learning processes, rehabilitation of patients at a physiological level, among others, begin to be produced.
Given this interdisciplinary origin, which currently extends to the production of knowledge and institutionalization processes, such as the creation of university degrees and the generation of professional associations in the world, Music Therapy as a scientific discipline also presents different models and validated epistemic currents that allow to demarcate its specificity in the treatment of subjectivity.
Constituting a singular identity at work with all significant subjective production at the sound-musical-corporal level, language in a broad sense, integrating interdisciplinarity into this configuration, not only through the articulation of knowledge but also in the dialectical interplay from the artistic and scientific, which conforms the professional music therapist.
A systematized analysis of final works will allow us to give an account of a state of affairs, of intra- and inter-institutional reflection, and in a broader sense, open to discipline and professional field, which at the international level forms a diverse space both at the level of formations as of degrees and with its correlate in the scientific productions of variability, reliability
and validity.