ITALIAN JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR INCLUSION
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Abstract
Music is an integral part of every person’s life. Scientific research has shown the effectiveness ofmusic in medical-rehabilitation contexts to the extent that it is considered, for some categoriesof people (disabled, socio-cultural, elderly), for the exclusive use of the psychotherapeutic field.The purpose of this review is to demonstrate the importance that music has also in the educationaland didactic field to “exploit” its peculiarities, “beyond” the therapeutic component toinclude the many different contexts of life. Among these, the “digital environments” make musicthe protagonist of a “world 2.0”, within which, starting from the strengths of the differentiatedMethod of Maria Montessori, it is possible to create a union between pedagogy and musicaleducation.The last section deals with deafness and music as a specimen, highlighting how theoretical andempirical research on this topic has dealt with it from a threefold perspective: on the one hand,music as rehabilitation therapy for deaf people; on the other, music’s contribution in the overalleducation of the deaf; finally, music as entertainment and its enjoyment as an expression ofquality free time for deaf people
