Volume 20, Number 39 (April, 2027) Innovating to transform: challenges of social justice in music education
Call for Papers: Volume 20, Number 39 (April, 2027)
Innovating to transform: challenges of social justice in music education
Music education today faces one of its greatest challenges: contributing to the construction of more just, inclusive and equitable societies. From a critical and transformative perspective, this monograph invites reflection on the role of music and music education as tools for innovation and social justice in the 21st century.
The aim of this call for papers is to bring together research, experiences and proposals that analyse how music education can become a driver of social change, addressing both the structural challenges and the pedagogical, community and cultural opportunities that emerge in a diverse and constantly changing world.
The aim is to create a space for dialogue between researchers, teachers and professionals who, from different disciplines and contexts, contribute their views on how to innovate in order to transform, placing social justice at the centre of music education.
This new issue of the Journal of Learning Styles, to be published in April 2027, will promote the dissemination of pedagogical proposals that address the design, implementation and evaluation of educational resources and teaching experiences based on music and the arts, in all their cross-cutting and interdisciplinary dimensions.
Therefore, this call for papers seeks to publish research articles, studies, experiences and educational practices that highlight the following guiding themes:
- Educational innovation and social justice in music teaching.
- Critical music education: approaches to equity and inclusion.
- Music and citizen participation: community and transformative experiences.
- Gender, diversity and social justice in music education.
- Digital technologies and resources as tools for musical equity.
- Music education and human rights: foundations and practices.
- Music as a tool for resistance, resilience and social empowerment.
- Teacher training from a social justice perspective.
- Global challenges for music education in vulnerable contexts.
- New horizons for research in music, innovation and social transformation.
Information for authors
Submission of full articles: from 1 October 2026
Publication guidelines: manuscripts must comply with the editorial guidelines and publication standards of the Estilos de Aprendizaje journal.
Participation
Research articles, case studies, pedagogical experiences, theoretical reviews and innovative projects that analyse the intersections between music, innovation and social justice in education will be accepted.
Deadline: 1 November 2026
Guest coordinators:
Cristina Arriaga, University of the Basque Country, Spain.
Cristina.arriaga@ehu.eus
Natalia Puerta, University of Valle, Cali, Colombia.
natalia.puerta@correounivalle.edu.co
