Music and Interculturality: Service-Learning Project in University Contexts

Abstract

AbstractService-learning, as an educational proposal in the university field, supposes an experience of improvement in learning. Music is undoubtedly a universal tool of social nature that facilitates the implementation of this type of educational innovation experience, helping students learn to be professionally competent while being useful to others. This article describes the experience and evaluation of service-learning carried out in the Faculty of Education Sciences of Santiago de Compostela with students in degrees and primary schools with a mention of music. The educational proposal was implemented in the hospital-classroom of the Clinical Hospital of Santiago de Compostela and local libraries. The purpose of implementing the service-learning project in subjects was to significantly improve learning and motivation through community service, using, as central axes, the preparation of a musical show and its corresponding teaching materials where the thematic axes the preparation of a musical show and its corresponding teaching materials interculturality. The purpose of working on this theme with students of children and primary school educational levels or degrees was to provide teachers with resources through music and art. The results were found satisfactory for students, concluding that this type of teaching practice improves both the quality of teaching and the durability and compression of learning.