Estrategias didácticas para desarrollar los procesos cognitivos en niños de Primero de Básica a través de la música

Abstract

The purpose of this work about Didactic strategies to develop cognitive processes in children of first grade through music is to know how beneficial music is for children, both for school learning and for daily life, having as general objective to elaborate a proposal of didactic strategies based on music to develop cognitive processes in children of the first grade of public and private institutions of the city of Cuenca. The methodology used is qualitative, with a descriptive-exploratory approach, since it allows to know the importance of implementing music as a strategy in the classroom. The population consisted of six teachers, the technique for the gathering of information was by means of a semi-structured interview, as for the analysis of the data; first, the interviews were transcribed, the information obtained was categorized, having as results four categories: the cognitive processes that are developed with music, the benefits of music in children, didactic strategies, and the areas of development. Finally, it is concluded that at early ages it is necessary to involve children with musical aspects, since it allows the development of cognitive processes such as attention, concentration, memory, imagination, and creativity, resulting in an indispensable and effective element for learning, thus allowing an integral development of children