How to educate culturally competent music teachers?

With the help of interviews and workshops, Laura Miettinen reviewed what audio instructor educators at Sibelius Academy, College of the Arts Helsinki and the Israeli Levinsky School of Instruction thought of interculturality and intercultural competence, i.e. attitudes, expertise and awareness that lecturers need to have when experiencing cultural range in their function. The dissertation aims to raise understanding of how cultural variety is—and could be—approached in new music instructor schooling and how the adjust to producing tunes instructor instruction systems much more interculturally knowledgeable could be initiated.

“The goal of the analysis has been to build networks among audio trainer educators and researchers. These networks will make it a lot easier to move on experience and collectively generated new conclusions of what interculturally informed tunes education and learning and audio instructor training could entail even throughout countrywide and institutional borders”, Miettinen describes.

The analysis job has by now opened up dialogs and new platforms where by folks can share their ordeals of experiencing cultural variety and interculturality in new music trainer training.

Miettinen finds that self-reflection and collective discussions enjoy a key job when creating tunes teachers’ intercultural competence. Music instructor education and learning applications must fortify the capacity to interact in important self-reflection and offer you educators possibilities to focus on issues and activities of intercultural songs training jointly with their colleagues and college students. In accordance to Miettinen, intercultural competence in songs trainer applications ought to be examined from a a lot more holistic and significant viewpoint.

“It is increasingly far more vital to be engaged in the problems of interculturality and cultural range and the enhancement of linked expertise in creating new music teacher educators’ and long term songs teachers’ experienced development, their programs or even total institutions amidst the worries of an at any time-changing global cultural weather,” Miettinen concludes.

Miettinen’s dissertation is part of the “International Visions By Mobilizing Networks” investigation project, and its results have been described in two content articles revealed in academic peer-reviewed journals and in three peer-reviewed guide chapters.

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