Instrumentalist Teacher Training : Fostering the Change Towards Student-Centered Practices in the Twenty-First Century

Abstract

This chapter focuses on relevant issues to instrumental music pre-service and in-service teachers, such as the need to strengthen their teaching strategies and skills; the importance of offering pedagogical certification in Higher Education; the importance of reflection on their teaching practices; the types of support available for their development as educators through mentoring opportunities; the contemporary necessities in terms of new awareness that are demanded by our society, such as the self-regulation, the gender gap or the working conditions; and the systems of access (or lack thereof) to the profession. This leads to a holistic understanding of the instrumental music teaching profession in current times, and also to acknowledge the pedagogies underpinning student-centeredness in instrumental music learning.