Abstract

MARTINEZ TRUJILLO, Nelcy  and  COLARTE TORRES, Akira. Music and gender approach in male and female children. Rev Cubana Enfermer [online]. 2013, vol.29, n.1, pp. 5-17. ISSN 0864-0319.

Background: music is a motivating pedagogical resource that can favor the acquisition of knowledge in the students. Its application in the addressing of topics such as the gender approach in male and female children is an option to consider. Objective: to describe conceptions and gender stereotypes in male and female children. Methods: a qualitative action research was conducted. Music was used as the central theme of eight working sessions with specific objectives and participative techniques. These were: familiarization, integration of elements of music and gender, introduction of contents, and feedback. The technique for data collection was the participating observation. The study group was composed of 16 children between 9 and 12 years of age who were selected by intention criteria. Results: the existence of gender roles and stereotypes was identified in the behavior of infants. The latter relate girls with the weak appearance instruments and high-pitched sounds, the boys with strong appearance instruments and bass sounds as well as the association of some musical instruments with the biological sexes of the musicians. Feedback sessions contributed to children visualization of the social conditioning of this construction. Conclusions: the use of music for the identification of conceptions and gender stereotypes in children allowed to identify aspects related to its construction around this manifestation and implement actions to reconstruct them.

Keywords : gender construction; male and female children; music.

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