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, researchers, and musicians from Latin America between July 15 and 18, 2025, with the aim of rethinking the role of the music educator in dialogue with new forms, spaces, and tools for work and analysis.
On behalf of the TCIEM project, Yurima Blanco and Felipe Zamorano participated, along with Gerson Nascimento (a doctoral candidate at the University of Valladolid, Spain), offering a presentation titled “The Soundscape in Primary School Music Curricula in Latin America: A Documentary Analysis”. The study examines the presence and representations of the concept of Soundscape in the educational curricula of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, and Mexico. It concludes that the presence of Soundscape varies across the analyzed curricula, although it is implied through various learning objectives. This relative importance reflects the flexibility of the term and the need to define it in its pedagogical dimension. However, the interdisciplinary nature of the Soundscape offers great potential for approaching music education in a creative manner committed to ecological, inclusive, and critical education—that is, from a perspective focused on developing the cross-curricular competencies necessary for 21st-century education. Further information: ISME – ISME Regional Paraguay 2025; ISME Regional Paraguay 2025
