Contributions of musical education to people with disabilities in the promotion of self-determination

The present article is based on the research work Música para ver: Sistematización de la experiencia (Music to see: Systematization of experience); a qualitative research, which approached the music education program Música para ver intended to unveil the subjective transformations of the participants in the city of Medellin between 2014-2016, to recognize the scope of the program and to strengthen its strategies. This research was made with 16 teenage music students with visual disabilities (VD) and their families in Medellin – Colombia, revealing the changes the participants had on the creation of their subjectivity, abilities development, life’s project, emotional bonds and transformation towards a positive concept of the disability in their families, all through music learning. This article aims to complement the conceptual referent of this research and create a record of the learnings unveiled from the research and derived from he researcher’s consideration surrounding the increase of self-determination with the musical practice of people with visual disabilities (VD). To this effect, the research briefly breaks down the characteristics and the impediments for the development of self-determined behaviors, there is an approximation to the changes in the regulations and the principles of Music Education that allows a more inclusive music classes. Ultimately, the research backs the thesis of collective musical practice encouraging the development of self-determination in people with VD.

• Autores: Pérez Valderrama, Mónica
• Fecha de publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad EAFIT
• Repositorio: Repositorio EAFIT
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/17686
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10784/17686
• Palabra clave: Musical education; Visual impairment; Involvement; Self-determination; Medellin; Educación musical; Discapacidad visual; Inclusión; Autodeterminación; Medellín
• License: Copyright © 2020 Mónica Pérez Valderrama