The scope of children's listening.

Sounds and images for auditory education, through cooperative learning strategies.

Abstract

In this article, we evaluate listening as a core dimension of childhood music education for the all-round development of the
child. We consider the importance of attention and active listening in processes for both communication and understanding the listening environment, the need for active listening in musical hearing for musical recognition, as well as their connections with knowledge and recognition of other art forms and language, as reflected in existing educational legislation. Next, we pose the benefits of cooperative learning for listening development within the communication skills needed for teamwork, evaluating the possibilities for adjusting this active methodology in children’s education. In the final section, we set out various resources and activities, considering image and audiovisual formats for trainee teachers in children’s education experimenting with and differentiating sounds. On this point, we make adaptive proposals for a selection of cooperative techniques and dynamics for music education, such that the cooperative structures favor the development of teamwork skills while listening is positively assessed (in university students’ learning too) in the implementation of this methodology that our teaching experience has shown can be adapted to different educational levels.