ART AS A TEACHING TOOL FOR LITERACY.

ANALYSIS OF THE DIAGNOSTIC STAGE OF THE MUNDOS IDEALES PROJECT

Abstract

This text is part of a research-action process to create an educational program to promote reading and writing from applied art to a focus group of girls and boys. It is an interdisciplinary work in which researchers from different areas of knowledge come together to carry out a pedagogical proposal for children between 10 and 11 years old belonging to the Gordiano Guzmán school in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, Mexico. In search of the benefit to the community, this qualitative proposal investigates the specific needs of the focus group to carry out an intervention and to promote literacy. Cognitive development and context are taken into account for the representation of their ideal worlds through art and literature. In a first phase of the investigation, a diagnostic instrument was carried out that has given some results to continue with a proposal for artistic intervention. In this work, an analysis of these results is carried out considering a theoretical framework based on the semiotics of art and applied linguistics. The objective is to find significant elements that allow the development of a reading program and an artistic intervention based on the construction and representation of the ideal worlds expressed by the participants, as well as attending to and strengthening linguistic learning.