Impacto de los proyectos artísticos en la práctica docente. Hacia la concreción de un currículo de competencias en República Dominicana

Resumen

With the changes that embrace the focus in competences on the Dominican Republic's undergraduate education curricular design, this investigation seeks to offer one look at the educational possibilities that the artistic projects have, and the impact of these on the implementation and development of the curriculum, product of the focusing itself. Being a reference to optimize this resource, as a pedagogical strategy for students to learn, which allows fixating knowledge and the development of competences for life itself. This investigation's target refers to analyze the incidence of the artistic projects in the teaching practice for the development of basic competences, knowing the characteristics and conditions of the teaching practices on which the strategy of artistic projects are used to achieve the competences, analyzing the value that on its execution make the agents implied and the impact of the strategy of artistic projects on the development of competences on the teaching of elementary and secondary context for the Dominican Republic. This study is made in correspondence of mixed methodology, that allows a mix of systematic processes, practice, empirical with critical order on investigation. This provides the recollection and analysis of data, quantity and quality. This allows having a wider look. Being a result of the mixture of the gathered information. The instruments utilized were interviews, interviews on depth and focal groups. The results of the investigations we verify that the integration of the artistic project strategies optimizes the teaching practice, providing the achieving of substantive concretions on learning and development of fundamental competences, group values and integration on several levels. On top of the development of competences, the realization of artistic projects guarantees the positive incidence in the educational community and the school's surroundings, directly and indirectly provides motivation and verifies learning. From the experiences expressed by the teachers who took part in this study, and the theory gathered, artistic projects produce a school climate charged with creative, dynamic, new, integrative resources that go way beyond the classroom and positively dimensions the "school community" concept. In this study, it has been proved that the education possibilities in the artistic projects in the school provide positive changes in the receptiveness of students, in the school climate and interpersonal relations, in culture and context. Finally, a scheme is shown as a proposal with working elements of already evaluated programs by the teacher's experience that could optimize the practice on the development of fundamental competences and as a valid strategy to get a positive incidence on the teaching practice.