Curriculum
The current degree in Music teacher training will disappear in Spain by 2010. Professors and lecturers of this field all over the country are very disappointed with this political decision. It is not clear yet in which way music will be integrated in the future degree for generalists, or whether it will be part of the training at all. Many universities are working at the moment on this issue. Presently, none of them have yet implemented a new curriculum. Because of this we will consider here the current situation for Music teacher training in primary school which is not still thought in terms of ECTS[3].
Subject field | Fields | Obligatory | Optional |
Artistic subjects | Guitar, Recorder, Orff instruments, Instrumental group play, Vocal group singing, Choral conducting, Rhythmic education | X |
|
Singing workshop, Choir |
| X | |
Music theory and history | Music theory (solfeggio), Vocal and aural training, History of western music*, History of Spanish folklore* | X |
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Music-forms analysis, Multimedia (music and computer science) & Music for the film, Music acoustics, Introduction to the orchestral music |
| X | |
Pedagogical subjects | Music didactics (for the primary school), Teaching practice at school | X |
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Construction of scholar musical instruments |
| X |
* This two fields are taught by musicologists and they do not have any didactic orientation at all. The rest of the subjects are teaching by lectures of the Department of Music Education, who always try to offer to their students a vision related to the school. So the repertoire to be sung or played is usually related to the interests of the young persons, the presentation of the main music-forms has also a didactic orientation for the school etc.
The number of teaching hours is as follows:
· Artistic/Musical field: about 250 hours (+ 105 hours optional);
· Music Theory and Music History field: about170 hours (+ 120 hours optional);
· Pedagogical/Teaching field: about 300 hours;
· Students teaching practice in school: about 120 hours (as a first contact with the school) plus about 200 hours (with a music teacher supervisor, in most cases but not always).
Fields | Hours / obligatory | Hours / optional |
Artistic and musical skills | 250 | 105 |
Music theory and music history | 170 | 120 |
Pedagogical skills | 80 | 45 |
Research approach[4] | 0 | 0 |
Teaching practice | 200 | 0 |
