Music Education and Social Skills Program

Abstract

Currently, music education is taking great importance in the training processes of students at school levels. This has been evidenced thanks to various studies carried out in numerous fields of knowledge which justify its application and have demonstrated its benefits in both artistic aspects belonging to the discipline itself, as well as in aspects not commonly considered in it. Within these aspects, the social skills recognized as a crucial element in the integral development of the student body for some years, have been benefited, to the point that, in some cases, it has been strengthened, reestablishing social fabrics from different fields of action, through intervention programs in educational institutions, in communities in situations of vulnerability, or that have been affected by various types of violence. In the work, the results of the application of a program of Musical Education and Social Skills entitled “from the greens of the sale” in adolescents between 12 and 14 years of age of basic secondary school of the Juanambú Educational Institution of the municipality of Union, department of Nariño, Colombia. A mixed methodology was used, the conceptual categories and the system of variables were determined, and then the activities that make up the program were chosen. The study was quasi-experimental, descriptive, cross-sectional with two groups, one experimental and one control, in pretest - posttest, comparing the impact of the music education program on their social skills. Taking into account the information obtained, it was possible to establish that the impact of the program was positive, the proposed activities and the work carried out during the intervention period contributed to the improvement of the social skills worked with the experimental group.