Music study can contribute to the school development of students
Estudo da música pode contribuir para o desenvolvimento escolar de estudantes
Luca Temponi was 3 years old when he started studying at the Baptist School of Music (EBM) [https://redebatista.edu.br]. The student’s father, physical educator Paulo Roberto Vieira, decided to enroll him because he understood that musicalization classes could contribute to his son’s cognitive development. He was right. Almost three years later, many fruits of the choice can be seen in the child’s life: Luca, now 5 and a half years old, not only recognizes all the letters, but also already reads and writes.
“He can read a whole book. Of course, we cannot say that this is a result exclusively obtained by learning music. But I believe that the stimuli of music, together with the motor stimuli we give, have enhanced his development at school. I am convinced to say that musicalization has contributed to the neurological synapses, the construction of thought from the rhythm, the reading of the world and the foundation of Luca’s learning”, says Paulo.
Luca Temponi is a student at the Baptist School of Music [on the picture]
The music teacher at the music school, Warley Santos, recalls that Luca has also shown results in relation to creativity. “There are times in class that I’m just conducting and Luca himself is creating the activities. This is a gigantic growth for a 5-year-old child”, he exemplifies.
Proven benefits
According to Warley, child musicalization is a great ally of children’s development and can start with a baby. “In addition to musical sensitivity, musicalization helps in the issue of socialization, motor coordination, learning to have discipline, having auditory acuity and working in groups, among other characteristics necessary to live in society”, he highlights.
Handel Cecilio, director of the Baptist School of Music and PhD in Historical Documentary Musicology, explains that the progress of students at school is possible since music contributes to concentration and logical reasoning, among other aspects. “The act of listening to music represents a complex cognitive function of the human brain and has been proven to induce several psychological and neural changes. The practice of listening to a piece of music increases the activity of genes involved in the secretion and transport of dopamines, synaptic function, learning and memory,” he says.
Research in this area also shows that when a person listens to music, this activity deregulates in his body the genes associated with neurodegeneration, referring to music as a neuroprotective function. “Scientific studies show, for example, that music, when worked on in childhood, helps in school development by reducing attention deficit. In addition, music stimulates regions of the brain that help in learning school subjects”, adds the director Handel Cecilio.
