Secondary music education for future professional artists Students’ expectations and education needs

Abstract

[Abstract] This study, which is part of a broader research project, seeks to deepen our knowledge about how secondary school students interested in being music, dance or dramatic art professionals fulfill their expectations and educational needs within the avai lable curricular options of the Spanish education system. In this sense, we study how a classroom group of students involved in the Bachillerato de Artes Escénicas, Musicales y Danza via understand and imagine their education and professional futures, trying to explore their educational demands. It is through comparing their testimonies with the actual educational processes, which take place within the classroom, as well as those didactic materials used for this purposes, that we promote a debate about how mu sic education learnings are related to students´ imagined professional futures and, thus, analysing how music curricular contents and materials meet those expectations.