Musical Heritage as a Means of Sustainable Development: Perceptions in Students Studying for a Degree in Primary Education

Marta Martínez-Rodríguez, José Manuel Hernández- de la Cruz, Borja Aso and Carlos D. Ciriza
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Marta Martínez-Rodríguez: Department of Music, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Autonomous University of Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
José Manuel Hernández- de la Cruz: Department of Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education, University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Borja Aso: Department of Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education, University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Carlos D. Ciriza: Department of Human Sciences and Education, Faculty of Human, Social and Educational Sciences, Public University of Navarra, 31006 Pamplona, Spain

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 10, 1-16

Abstract: Education is an essential vehicle for valuing cultural legacy, and musical heritage is a part of that cultural legacy that we must protect as it is one of the main areas of intangible cultural heritage, a reflection of cultural diversity, and a conveyor of meaning, and social, cultural, and economic values contributing to sustainable development. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to evaluate the perception students studying for the Degree in Primary Education at the University of Zaragoza and the Autonomous University of Madrid have of the value, significance, and importance of the sustainability of musical cultural heritage. This non-experimental and descriptive research is based on the statistical descriptive method, with a sample of n = 202 preservice teachers. A questionnaire consisting of fifteen items was designed and validated as a data collection instrument. The data analysis shows differences in the analyzed categories and points to the need to take action to solve them. It also reveals the importance students attach to musical cultural heritage, to including it in the curricula of the various educational stages, and to the need to protect it as an essential requirement for sustainable development.

Keywords: intangible cultural heritage; sustainability; heritage education; preservice teachers; innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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