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Culture, Education, and Future
e‑ISSN 2980-2741 Open Access · CC BY 4.0
Vol. 3 · Issue 1 · 2025 Jun 26, 2025 Articles

Future-proof learning outcomes for classroom music teacher education: A Europeanwide exploration

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Thomas De Baets Corresponding LUCA School of Arts & KU Leuven thomas.debaets@luca-arts.be Belgium
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Ann-Sophie De Praitere LUCA School of Arts Belgium
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Marina Gall University of Bristol United Kingdom
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Isolde Malmberg University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna Austria
Pages82-99 PublishedJun 26, 2025 LicenseOpen Access
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Abstract

Equipping school-based music teachers with future-proof competences for meaningful classroom music in primary and secondary education, can be approached in different ways. One way is to facilitate music teacher education by formulating and disseminating future-proof learning outcomes that capture current and future demands of the music teaching profession. As part of the Erasmus+ Teacher Academy, the ‘Teacher Education Academy for Music’ (TEAM), we are developing a data-based set of descriptors that define the expected learning outcomes for future music teachers in schools. We take two existing (and widely used) sets as a starting point, and are updating them based on data collection and discussion. The purpose of the current study is to determine current and future-oriented trends in existing institutional, regional and national sets of descriptors, throughout Europe, which have been collected from stakeholders in the TEAM project and the EAS network. Through open coding, with guiding inclusion and exclusion criteria, 6 dominant emergent themes have been defined: (1) collaborations, (2) digitisation, (3) diversity & inclusion, (4) global (artistic) citizenship, (5) interdisciplinarity, and (6) practitioner research & professional development. We discuss the findings in relation to the current (international) discourse in music education and look forward to the potential impact of the findings on the concept and formulation of the new set of learning outcomes in Europe.

Keywords

#classroom music #curriculum #future demands #learning outcomes #music teacher education

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