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Teaching music is a creative and enriching profession, and a rare craft, one that opens aesthetic and emotional doors through social connections.
The training in pedagogy offered at the Haute école de musique de Genève (HEM) is aimed at developing your ability to adapt to each teaching situation, whether it is individual or collective. Thus, our students learn to ask themselves questions about their own experiences as pupils, to question their ideas about music teaching, to transition from their identity as a student to the identity of a teacher. We invite you to consider learning as taking precedence over teaching.
Whether you have a predisposition for it or not, teaching is a profession that one can learn. It requires you to be able to know how to articulate multiple types of knowledge and competencies in didactics, ethics, the history of trends in education, methodology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, etc. Also, the concepts studied as part of the training come from all these disciplines.
In parallel to this, the analysis of activity (live or by video) is a central activity that allows for a direct line to be drawn between theory and practice, in order to construct basic professional gestures but also build the capability to refresh your teaching throughout your life.