Dance creation workshops for children with special educational needs

Abstract

The workshops of dance creation for children with Special Educational Needs are part of one of the actions of the pedagogical strategy for the pedagogical professional reaffirmation of the Art Instructor in the author's doctoral research, as a contribution to the practice, with a pedagogical and artistic approach in Special Education. In them, both contents are integrated in the dance specialty by means of certain techniques of psicoballet, music and Cuban dance as a method, besides therapeutic, pedagogical. This makes possible the development of the continuous pedagogical training of this professional by favoring the sensorial and motor capacity in adolescents with Down Syndrome. The objective of the article is to show how the workshops of dance creation for the student with this disability constitute a way for the achievement of the pedagogical professional reaffirmation of the Instructor of dance art who works in these contexts. In addition, the design of some workshops (put into practice) that support the teaching-learning of art is presented. A population of 10 students was chosen for the study. Theoretical and empirical research methods were used, such as observation, survey, interviews, analysis and synthesis, and induction-deduction, among others.