La música y la escritura creativa en los procesos formativos de ingenieros

Abstract

The general objective of the research is to investigate the skills that are enhanced in a group of engineering students who participated in the music and creative writing workshops, offered by the University Well-being culture area of ​​the Santo Tomás University. In turn, the following specific objectives were set: Investigate the skills that are potentiated through music and creative writing in a group of engineering students. Analyze the meanings related to participation in music and creative writing workshops in the training processes of engineers and propose strategies that allow the different engineering training routes to be potentiated from music and creative writing. The development of the research allows the consolidation of a theoretical reference through which to explore the way in which these disciplines of the human sciences influence and dialogue in the academic and personal training of any student, especially engineers. A posteriori, the approach and type of research are determined within the structure of qualitative research, specifically a case study is proposed for which semi-structured interviews are one of the priority instruments in the collection of information. Once said information has been compiled and the data that constitutes the fundamental input has been selected, we proceed with the analysis of these through the use of three matrices that made it possible to progressively organize and code the data obtained, which in the end lead to the research findings. These findings are raised from different perspectives, among others, epistemological, methodological, didactic and conceptual from the disciplines involved, which are saw exposed in the body of this document as follows: The writing and music present in the process of building the life project, the importance of the humanities as a transversal and constant axis in the training of an engineer, music as a means for development of cognitive elements and for the construction of ethical and social subjects and creative writing as a means of expression and development of communicative skills, which is exposed in the sections related to the dialogue between the human sciences and the natural sciences and the incidence of these in the professional and personal training of the engineers who participated in the investigation. Finally, some of the strategies used in the disciplinary spaces are exposed, thus fulfilling the last specific objective.