The Escuela de la Escucha (“School of Listening”), an experimental pedagogical initiative of the Millennium Nucleus on Musical and Sound Cultures (CMUS), has completed its second year of implementation with steady growth. Between 2024 and 2025, teachers from 10 regions of the country adopted the methodology, which reached approximately 576 high school students.

During the first implementation in 2024, the Escuela de la Escucha trained 6 teachers and held 6 workshops. In 2025, these numbers grew to 24 trained teachers and 22 workshops. In total, 576 students have participated in the Escuela de la Escucha: 109 in 2024 and 467 in 2025.

Environment and Territory, the most popular theme

The Escuela de la Escucha has three thematic axes. So far, teachers have shown a clear tendency to choose “Environment and Territory”: it was the theme of 5 of the 6 workshops in 2024 and 18 of the 22 in 2025. It was followed by “Migration and Citizenship,” with 1 workshop in 2024 and 3 in 2025, while “Culture and Gender Relations” was not chosen in 2024 and was the theme of 1 workshop in 2025.

An experience that reaches beyond the capital

One of the guiding principles of the Escuela de la Escucha has been the decentralization of the educational experience, bringing the methodology to different regions of the country. In 2024, it reached 4 regions: Arica y Parinacota, Valparaíso, Metropolitana, and Araucanía.

In 2025, the implementation expanded to 10 regions: Arica y Parinacota, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Atacama, Valparaíso, Metropolitana, Biobío, Araucanía, Los Ríos, and Los Lagos.

Learn more about the Escuela de la Escucha in our special section of the website.