Artes Visuales como Estrategia Didáctica para el Mejoramiento de la Lectura, la Escritura y la Oralidad en el Ámbito Educativo

This article shows the results of the educational research entitled “visual arts as a didactic strategy to motivate reading, writing and orality in the school environment in Colombia”; research presented in the “Master in Education” of the Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios, linked to the research line “Education, social transformation and innovation”, sub-line “Educational processes for diversity and cultural transformation”. This research, as described in its title, was based on visual arts as a strategy for the potentiation of pedagogical practices aimed at teaching and learning reading, writing and orality, understood as socio-cultural practices, of great importance for students, as they allow them to be and to be in the world; also, as didactic strategies that allow motivating and mediating the acquisition of communicative competences. This research was developed under the qualitative approach and the action research method, and established four phases of operation: participant observation, design of didactic units, application of didactic strategies to encourage the processes of reading, writing and speaking, and finally, analysis of the results. Instruments such as the field diary, Pretest and Post test were used, which allowed generating a triangulation, resulting in important considerations regarding the incidence of visual arts in the school and its potential role in the pedagogical strategies aimed at the transformation of the educational practice, strengthening the reading, writing and oral skills of the students.