El Taller de Lenguaje Musicaluna estructura didáctica para estimular el interés situacional en las Escuelas de Música

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Situational interest is one of the main problems in the Musical Language teaching learning process and it is the engine of the doctoral thesis The Musical Language Workshop: a didactic structure to stimulate situational interest in Music Schools. On a first diagnosis of the attitude of students in Musical Language classes, we identified boredom, tiredness, absenteeism and abandonment. Such behaviours also reflected interest-related difficulties, which is a psychological state of predisposition to commitment and one characteristic of motivation as a wider psychological category, which determines the direction of human conduct.We found that pedagogical and psychological theories, both historical and contemporary, consider Interest as one of the engines of the educational process. In the last decades of the XX century, interest has had an independent treatment from motivation with the development of theories focused on its personal and situational conditions, its ontogenetic character and learning. This thesis focuses on the concept of situational interest, which refers to a temporary state of commitment and satisfaction, influenced by elements of the environment favouring active participation, satisfaction of individual interest and autonomy basic psychological needs, competence and social relationship...