Current and future challenges

Bologna reform

We are in the last stage of renewing the “Bologna” Music teacher training course. The impulse for the reform is political but the need for reform also exists inside the present Music teacher training programme.

Innovation the Bologna reform includes different levels of qualification for all of the teachers: Master’s degree. Future music teachers will study for five years to achieve this qualification. 

In the redesigned Music teacher training programme at the Academy of Music (University of Ljubljana) the weighting the fields (artistic/musical, music theory and music history, pedagogical/teaching) will be very similar. The changes will be:

• the organisation of the course (two cycles: three years for the Bachelor’s degree + two years for the Master’s degree),

• fusing subjects into modules,

• a goal oriented curriculum,

• exposing the competencies,

• renewing teaching/learning methods and refreshing contents,

• extended optional subjects,

• possibilities for links between closely connected musical programmes,

• more emphasis on students' individual work,

• emphasis on student/teacher mobility,

• emphasis on the use of ICT.

Class teacher programmes are in the same stage of being revised as a result of the Bologna process. The main concern is the need to check the musical abilities of students who are entering the programme.