In the framework of the PROFMUS project, researchers Felipe Zamorano-Valenzuela and Rosa Serrano ask in a paper published in the journal Arts Education Policy Review how music teachers are being trained in terms of innovation, a concept that plays a decisive role in our current knowledge-based society and economy. This article aims to obtain an overview of the objectives and structures associated with the concept of innovation that appear in the Master’s degree for secondary music teachers in Spain. The researchers analyze the Spanish legislation and the Master’s programs of 26 Spanish universities. Their results reveal a lack of consensus on which objectives should be pursued and which innovative practices should be prioritized. However, there is a tendency to consider innovation as a mere exercise of adaptation of teachers and students to the school reality, proposing activities and projects in the field of digital technology, as well as examples of “good practices”. The researchers conclude that educational innovation needs fundamental advances, not only in terms of its budgets, but also in its actions, which should lead to the development of critical and creative attitudes that can favor real social transformation.

Link to the paper in English: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10632913.2022.2076269?src=&journalCode=vaep20