Educational sciences applied to the teaching of music
This course aims to give students the skills and resources they need to teach at a music school in the best possible conditions.
It is no longer enough merely to be a good musician with good pedagogical instincts. Teaching music is a creative and enriching profession, and a rare craft, one that opens aesthetic and emotional doors through social connections.
Contents and form of the teaching
The main ideas and concepts that the training explores are:
- Aptitudes (≠ gifts) for learning music, sensorial, psychomotor, affective and cognitive dimensions
- Contributions to psychology (developmental, cognitive and in terms of neurosciences) concerning teaching and learning
- Social and societal dimensions of teaching and learning an instrument
- General ideas / concepts associated with didactics (didactic system, transfer, obstacles, asking questions, learning goals, etc.)
- Mediating of apprenticeships and provision of support
- Organization of teaching (lesson planning, planning the school year, etc.)
- Managing group dynamics and leadership
- Teacher effects
- Relationship to learning, to mistakes
Target audience and admission criteria
Music teachers who are currently active, wishing to “update” their knowledge in educational sciences as applied to the teaching of music.
Forms of participation & certification
As an attendee of lectures (there is no exam and no coursework) - a certificate is issued at the end of the training
Tutor
The holder of a doctorate in Social and political sciences, in the field of Education sciences, Carine Tripet is a musician as well. With a musical background rooted in jazz, but specializing in vocal music from around the world, she is active in the Valais, where her musical projects are centred around immigration and the Valais’ cultural legacy. She won the Musique Pro Valais cultural bursary for the period 2014-2017 for a project entitled ViaVallesia.
Formerly a professor at the Haute école pédagogique du Valais, where she was in charge of several educational programmes, she also taught courses in Education sciences applied to music teaching for six years at the HEMU. The content of her courses is resolutely inter-disciplinary, gleaning material from all relevant sources (including, in no particular order: didactics, developmental psychology, neuroscience, ethics, and law) in order to create a solid network of concepts and notions enabling young professors to analyse their own practices. Her research is oriented towards building the professional identity of music professors, in conjunction with cultural democracy.
She has coordinated the pedagogy course at the Haute école de musique de Genève since 2022.
