Music teacher training at the universities of Castilla y León: creativity, citizenship, and lifelong learning as keys to educational change

Abstract

This article analyses the musical training of future music teachers in compulsory education at the universities of Castilla y León. It is part of an R+D project EDU2017-84782 (Profmus) that researches the training of teachers and its impact on current educational policy. It examines eight courses of study (five Bachelor's and three Master's) and a total of 70 courses: 45 from the Teacher's Degree (Music Education), and 25 from the Master's Degree in Compulsory Secondary Education. The curricula, teaching guides and compulsory education legislation are analyzed through open coding. Eight categories of intersection between university plans and the primary and secondary curriculum are found, in two dimensions: musical content (listening, musical interpretation, dance and movement, musical and cultural contexts, music and technologies) and transversal content (oral and written expression, entrepreneurship and creativity, citizenship and diversity). The results show that courses of study are generally adapted to the training needs of future teachers, although training needs to be oriented towards creativity, citizenship, and lifelong learning.