A web site analysis of music teacher education in Europe - A study of six countries

The present study is a part-study of the EVEDMUS (evaluation of teacher education in music) project aiming to examine the music teacher education programmes across Europe and Latin America. The overarching objective of the EVEDMUS project is to learn about the different conditions and causes in which the musical and educational knowledge is being constructed and identify factors in the programmes that influence quality as seen by different stakeholders. This study focuses on data collection from web pages of various institutions with music teacher education in Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden, and the objective has been to analyse the information and curriculum found on these web pages according to categories formulated by the EVEDMUS project. The study shows a great variety on how music teacher education is organised and presented. Flexibility and emphasis are two areas where the difference is substantial. In general teacher education programmes the tendency is that very little information is included about the music subject. There is also a great variety as to whether the different institutions have information in English, which indicates that the adaptation of the Bologna Declaration is far from finished