Music Education and technology: trends in research

Abstract

Technology has been integrated into the different curricular areas since the digital competence is considered a key competence and its consequent impact on educational policy in different countries. This phenomenon has also affected Music education, for which technology has great potential. This study focuses on the relationship between technology and Music Education from a bibliometric and bibliographic approach. On one hand, research was carried out on scientific production in quantitative terms, based on the analysis of the 161 selected articles from the Web of Science and Scopus databases and, on the other hand, the content of the 55 publications available in open access. Results confirm the increase in relevant scientific production over the past 5 years and the predominant positions of the United States and Spain. It also highlights the pre-eminence of research focused on higher education, students and teachers being the main participants. The variety of technology implemented in training processes is also noteworthy, as well as its positive impact not only on aspects related to the discipline itself, but also on the development of transversal competencies.