THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC IN THE TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS

Abstract

The article presentes the importance of music in the teaching-learning process, the elements that contribute to the child’s development and the effectiveness of music education in the school environment. The presence of music when correctly inserted in the teaching-learning, process allows the achievement of specific and adequate knowledge, capable of solving the problems inherent to the child’s human and formative dimension. Music is an instrument of education, capable of transcending artistic activity and entering the fullness of the human being, raising the recognition of its values and potential. The present work aims to reflect music in education and the concepts that define it, as well as to presente new strategies and methodologies that help the practice of school education, in order to explain how musicalization can contribute to learning in a meaningful way. However, the musical experience, in addition to stimulating the use of the child’s senses, awakens them to unknown skills: self-knowledge and the achievement of autonomy. With regard to the development of the their skills, some instruments and objects show such skills, enabling the interaction and inclusion of the child with the environment in this important phase of pedagogical development. Finally, the insertion of music in the school context goes beyond implanting and establishing curricula. The music points to psychosomatic elements that constitute the chid’s integral formation, establishes a harmonious vision about the being and the world that surrounds him.