El potencial de una metodología de enseñanza de las artes para transformar las prácticas educativas

Abstract

In this paper we reflect on the educational potential of an arts instruction methodology developed by professors in the arts educations specialty in the Master’s program of educational development at the National Pedagogic University (UPN, in Spanish). We used this methodology in the accompaniment of instructors at a television broadcast-based junior high (telesecundaria) in order to strengthen their arts instruction practices. After a brief description of the methodology we describe how one of the professors at the telesecundaria used it to teach the arts and combined artistic disciplines with other subjects from the official program, allowing us to observe what aspects of the methodology were transferred to his teaching practices. We also present how the appropriation of some elements of this methodology caused a shift in the professor’s pedagogic and didactic process that point towards a renovated educational practice.