La práctica docente y el nuevo currículo de educación artística de las instituciones ejes del Distrito Ambato 1, Circuito La Matriz

Abstract

These are the characteristics that identify the new curriculum in the country according to the educative authorities. The curriculum of the Area of Cultural and Artistic Education looks for the learning through the arts, stimulating the imagination. It also provides the students experiences that come from their creativity and initiative. This curriculum mainly focuses in the teacher’s commitment of practicing it in the classroom. However, nowadays in the Educative Centers like “Las Américas”, “Luis A. Martínez”, and “Pedro Fermín Cevallos” this curriculum does not land in the classrooms yet. It is due to the teaching practice does not motivate to the learning. The teachers do not appropriate the curriculum base, neither involve nor put in practice all the topics. The applied strategies limit the development of students’ sensibility and artistic skills. Because of this situation, this research work addresses the diagnostic of the characteristics of the teaching practice and the process of applying the New Curriculum of Artistic Education and its reforms (2014, 2016). As a proposal it is developed a plan of working that promotes the applying of the new curriculum. It also starts with an analysis of pedagogic experiences and good classroom practices through the creation of cooperative working circles among teachers of the area, and the development of classroom projects with topics like: cinema, theatre, and comics; which attract students’ attention, but the hardly ever are applied in the educative context. The alternatives of solution shown tend to improve the teaching practice for a better application of the new Curriculum of Artistic Education.