RESEARCH IN MUSIC EDUCATION
TCIEM Project
An R&D project on the development of transversal competencies and transversality from music education.
Welcome to the website of the R&D Research Project PID2021-128645OB-I00 on Transversality, Creativity and Inclusion in School Music Projects: An Evaluative Research (TCIEM), funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain.
TCIEM aims to generate knowledge from research data to determine to what extent different interdisciplinary proposals of teaching intervention carried out from music education develop the transversal competencies of the curriculum.
In these pages you will find information about the purposes of the project, its members, and we will be adding information as it is produced and published.
A united team
This project is carried out thanks to the teamwork of a group of national and international university professors.
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Music, the school curriculum and interdisciplinarity
The journal Música Hodie has published the special issue *Music, curriculum and interdisciplinarity: research findings from Brazil and Spain*, coordinated by Paloma Bravo Fuentes (a member of the TCIEM project). This special issue includes several contributions developed in Spain as part of the mentioned project. The papers in this work

TCIEM members participate in the ISME-Latin America Regional Conference
Entitled “Music Education, Identities, and Transformation: Weaving Sounds for a Sustainable Future”, the 15th Latin American Regional Conference and 7th Pan-American Regional Conference on Music Education of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) was held. Hosted by the National University of Asunción, Paraguay, the event brought together numerous teachers,

Policies, Practices, and Challenges for Education Through the Arts
Professor Rosa M. Serrano, a member of the TCIEM project’s research team, participated as a guest speaker at the symposium “Education Through Art – Policies, Practices, and Challenges,” organized by the University of Madeira (Portugal) and held on September 19, 2025. Rosa M. Serrano presented her paper titled Artistic Transdisciplinarity