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abstract

  • By exposing students to activities that include listening and being aware of the noises and sounds of the environment, they can develop an environmental and social awareness that enables empathetic attitudes towards the users of the space of the specific place. The objective of this work is that, from a collaborative and experiential experience, students can generate awareness of how important it is to consider a good urban design of the soundscape for the welfare of the population and users of it; another objective is that students develop critical thinking skills for decision making. The methodology proposed here presents an interactive approach and educational innovation in the teaching-learning process around engineering. To achieve the immersion of students in experiential learning, an activity was designed to be carried out in an intense week of work, during which students must perform sound walks in an urban area to obtain measurements of sound levels (noise in dB) generated by daily activities, the decibels measured had an average of 65 dB, from these results, they make proposals for improvement of urban design to reduce noise pollution. A survey carried out among the students shows averages above 9.0 in the students¿ approval of the activity. In the presentation of the analysis of the results by the higher education students, it was possible to observe the development of critical thinking skills, while expressing how the activity helped them to become aware of the importance of knowing about noise pollution. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.

publication date

  • January 1, 2024