Cognitive, Visual-spatial and Psychomotor Development in Students of Primary Education through the Body Percussion – BAPNE Method

Abstract

The importance of the music and movement in the music learning is vital in the formation and development of people. The BAPNE method enables the development of each of the multiple intelligences, founded by Howard Gardner, through the teaching of body percussion, relying on five disciplines such as Biomechanics, Anatomy, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Ethnomusicology. This article arises from the need for empirical data evidence that this methodology has great benefits in primary education. Focusing on the visuospatial intelligence, and body and kinetic intelligence this research establishes that the objective is to demonstrate that students who use this methodology will better achieve their cognitive, visuospatial, and psychomotor development. So we have developed a study of 60 subjects in the 2nd year of primary education, between 7 and 8 years of age. The sample is divided into control group (N=30), which does not carry out the teaching of body percussion - Method BAPNE, and the experimental group (N=30), wherein the method is employed. The design is used quasi-experimental study with measures before and after the treatment, being used the Movement Assessment Battery for Children ABC (MABC-2) as pre-test and post-test. After carrying out ANOVA statistical analysis of repeated measures, in which we contrast the results of the pre-test to post-test results in both groups, we have found that the experimental group presented a significant improvement in overall post-test scores.