Including sustainability in pre-service and continuous teachers’ training using musical storytelling

Abstract

From the school years of 2010-2011 to 2016-2017, students enrolled on the subject Didáctica de la Expresión Musical en Infantil taught in the first year of the degree on Early Childhood Education (Córdoba University) have been doing an interdisciplinary activity with a significant specific weight within the evaluation system of the subject: The tale with music. This is the symbiosis of sound, word and movement, consisting on the dramatization of an original story (freely chosen), seen as a resource to carry out a communicative action. Thanks to that, during all the referred period, there were more than eighty group work presented by the students, each one addressing diverse contents. Based on a quantitative research of the different topics proposed in those works, this paper aims to assess in what extent the principles of sustainability, faced in a social, economic or environmental perspective, have been taken into account, and, therefore, if there is a clear awareness on the part of the students recently admitted to the University about the need for a sustainable curricular development, as well as their understanding of its nature.

Besides, as an example of good practices, an experience of a tale with music in which curricular sustainability has been taken into account will be described. The activity was created, as an educational innovation project, in the Teacher Training Center "Luisa Revuelta" of Córdoba, with the participation of teachers from all educational levels and specialties.