The play-music workshop as a physical and symbolic space to promote inclusive education

Abstract

From the perspective of inclusive education, removing obstacles to learning and participation and implementing facilitators are fundamental tasks. The spaces and places devoted to this task play a crucial role in “human functioning” and in the formative success of all students. Within this framework, the “workshop” is an emblematic “physical and symbolic place”, as well as a genuinely “facilitating environmental factor”.
In this paper, we describe the characteristics of the play-music workshop, which seems to be a space well-suited to learning through effective experiences of dialogue and comparison, respecting differences. In this context, a national survey has analyzed the pedagogical and organizational aspects that make the play-music workshop a space and a teaching strategy capable of supporting schools’ development in terms of inclusion.