Abstract

ARIAS ARCE, Alonso Armando. The audio story as a didactic tool in children’s music education focused on a subject of the Early Childhood Education program at UNED. Innovaciones Educativas [online]. 2025, vol.27, n.42, pp.42-61. ISSN 2215-4132.  http://dx.doi.org/10.22458/ie.v27i42.5299.

The purpose of developing an audio story guide for the Music for the Preschooler course at the Universidad Estatal a Distancia de Costa Rica was to find a solution to the areas of improvement identified in other terms and to respond more clearly to the doubts of the students. The aim of the guide was to accompany the students step by step in order to establish the narrative and sound categories that are essential for the elaboration of an audio story. Resources such as a self-assessment rubric, a questionnaire, and the guide in PDF and graphic formats were provided. A qualitative methodology was used to generate descriptive data to determine the usefulness of the guide. A total of 89 Music for the Preschooler students were trained using the guide. The results were positive and the students agreed on its usefulness. However, problems of coherence between sound and narrative were still present when the audio stories were analyzed. It was concluded that it is important to implement the audio story guide to facilitate the writing and the choice of sounds. Furthermore, it is urgent to promote spaces for students to develop audio stories in groups. Finally, this is an opportunity to update the didactic unit and to train teachers in the use of this innovative didactic tool.

Keywords : Storytelling; sound; early childhood education; narration; preschooler; teaching method.

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