iMUSED

The iMUSED research group was set up with the aim of deepening the knowledge of music education from multiple perspectives. The different interests it addresses can be grouped into five main lines of research: educational innovation, interdisciplinarity, the study of the curriculum, musical identities and knowledge transfer. The first includes the development of methodologies, resources and approaches that contribute to the reflection on current educational practices, to the re-elaboration of established aims and to the renewal of didactic strategies in line with them. Examples include the development of creativity, the incorporation of ICT and new pedagogical methods, the didactics of music listening and performance, and critical music education. Secondly, interdisciplinarity refers to the search for intersections between music education and other areas of knowledge, both scholarly and academic. In this sense, the educational possibilities of specific repertoires such as stage music or contemporary urban popular music will be explored in order to establish bridges with areas such as social sciences, language or plastic arts. In the same way, the connections with social and experimental sciences, communication and audiovisual sciences, special education and emotional education will be explored, as well as the use of musical heritage and the reconstruction of the history of the discipline itself. A third line of research is constituted by the study of the different curricular levels, especially with regard to the prescriptions of educational legislation, the contents programmed in school textbooks, and the practices and considerations of teachers. Fourthly, the identities and subjectivities present in different groups belonging to the field of music education will be studied, such as the professional identities of teachers and the musical identities of students, analysed on the basis of their preferences and cultural reference groups. The aim is to analyse how the different identities influence the teaching and learning processes, and to develop strategies to positively influence the construction of students' identities. Finally, the last line of research corresponds to the transfer of scientific knowledge in music education, aimed at individuals and groups interested in this field, and involves the development of resources, the dissemination of results and the training of teachers. Three of the members of the group (IP Ana María Botella, Rafael Fernández and Rosa Isusi) have been teaching on the Master's Degree in Secondary Education since 2010 and 2014 respectively. Professors Ana María Botella (IP) and Rosa Isusi teach on the Master's Degree in Specific Didactics Research at the Faculty of Teacher Training and, together with Salvador Blasco, supervise theses on the PhD programme in Specific Didactics. Both lecturers also collaborate in the doctoral programme of the Universitat Politècnica de València in the direction of doctoral theses. In addition, the IP Ana María Botella, has a track record of 15 theses supervised in the doctorate programme at the Faculty of Teacher Training and at the University of Salamanca.