Abstract:

This presentation aims to show some of the educational possibilities of artistic-musical practices of sound art in current education. It focuses on the relevance of specific sound activities to promote environmental, ecological, civic and sustainability education, topics of general interest. For this, real practical examples made with students of different levels and in different educational environments are presented.

The workshops are: one of avant-garde art for elementary school children taught as part of a museum's summer school, another of radio, acoustic ecology, soundscape and sound art in a Secondary Education Section as part of the music subject and a third of soundscape and sensory tourism for 1st grade university students of tourism. The methodology used in the courses can be summarized as previous reflections to know the status of the students, audio-visual presentations that exposed the theory and illustrated the practice, and experimentation, games, simulations and case methods to exercise these practices. The activities selected here are the ones that were most useful and simple for teaching with this type of content, by directly promoting attention to the natural and urban world, the development of awareness of the I-environment relationships, that of responsible freedom and the benefits of using reuse and recycling.

The last factor is to be able to make a bigger and more interesting educational project with all them. These practices and their sequence are: exercises of consciousness and sensory development, the construction of recycled sound instruments, soundwalks and soundscapes. Before, during and after each course, workshops and activities were evaluated to know their relevance and operability. For a better development of this paper, the methodology used in the self-evaluations and its conclusions are summarized. After that a strategic planning technique (SWOT report) has also been used to evaluate the entire project, so that other teachers can easily know their interest and possibilities. In it I analyze its internal characteristics observing weaknesses and strengths, and its external situation with the threats and opportunities that those spaces offered.

The results show the usefulness and versatility of these practices, demonstrating its power to generate innovative content and activities of interest for the student, who through different routes practices art and music while exercises his ecological conscience and awareness, his citizenship and responsibility. The first section of the paper introduces the problem. The second begins by indicating the most important fundamentals and references in sound art, pointing out the links it has with ecology, self-responsibility and civics. Then the real workshops are described to serve as example of contents and activities, their sequencing, methodology, evaluation criteria, etc. The third section corresponds to the analysis of the sound practices and the SWOT of the entire project with some useful tips for the inclusion of these proposals. The fourth is for conclusions.

Keywords:

Environmental Education, Ecological Education, Civic education, Informal Learning, Sound-Art.