Next September the book Escuelas musicales. Buenas prácticas docentes en centros de Primaria y Secundaria que educan a través de la música will be released. It contains part of the research developed by the Impactmus project, which sought to analyse professional practices in primary and secondary music classrooms from Spanish schools in accordance with relevant music education models and in relation to current social needs.

The book contains seven case studies that can be considered as different examples of “good teaching practices” in music education. All of them are also valuable in that they can contribute to responding to the new educational, social, economic and cultural demands of our time.

The book will be published by Octaedro and has been edited by José Luis Aróstegui Plaza, Gabriel Rusinek Milner and Antonio Fernández-Jiménez. It includes contributions from researchers from several Spanish universities, as well as from foreign universities.

Click here to find a brief summary and the table of contents of the book.

A Spanish newspaper has reported on the research developed by the IMPACTMUS project on the impact of music education for the Knowledge-based Society and Economy. It also highlighted the work currently being developed by the PROFMUS project to study the initial and lifelong learning of future music teachers in Primary and Secondary Education. To this end, the article interviews two participants in both projects, José Luis Aróstegui Plaza, principal researcher of the mentioned projects and professor at the University of Granada, and Rosa Serrano Pastor, faculty member at the University of Zaragoza.

Both researchers review the main results of the research on the impact of music education, and also talk about the study that is still in progress on the training received by future music teachers who will train students in Primary and Secondary Education.

Link to the article (in Spanish): https://bit.ly/3sBiXKx

In December 2020, the Electronic Journal LEEME focused part of its 46th issue on the training of music teachers. This work includes several papers on music teachers education, focusing on the changes introduced by the implementation of the European Higher Education Area, on the transformation of this training to adapt to the needs and challenges of the current context such as the Knowledge-based Society and Economy, as well as on many other topics.

Some of these papers have been written by members of the PROFMUS project as a result of part of the research being done by this project. The whole special issue has been coordinated by Rosa Serrano Pastor, faculty member at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and member of the PROFMUS project.

Link to the whole special issue at the journal’s website (in Spanish): https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/LEEME/issue/view/1190