La Música: La Excusa perfecta

Abstract

The following paper is the result of a work developed in the settlement Asohelechales in the municipality of Floridablanca, Santander whose objective was to stimulate the learning of cooperative work through a pedagogical strategy, based on musical expression practices with children of early childhood and adolescence to strengthen social skills such as cooperative work for empowerment and identity as a social group- For this purpose, workshops were designed and implemented with musical activities that stimulated the learning of collaborative and cooperative work, whose fundamental components are: positive interdependence, individual responsibility and equity participation. The approach chosen for the development of this project was qualitative research which analyzed educational practices strengthened by the process actors themselves. The type of reaserch that was applied, was participatory action research which allowed the observation and description of the community to then intervene in it with pedagogical actions and thus begin a path towards the transformation of significant cultural patterns, on collective work and its impact on the development of their community. The findings expressed through the development of the research were: Low self- esteem due to their socioeconomic condition, difficulty to assume challenges due to fear and embarrassment before error, verbal, psychological and physical abuse in power relations and the difficulty of establishing important synergistic relationships by setting goals and making them concrete in a collective work.