One of the deliverables of the Erasmus+ Teacher Academy ‘Teacher Education Academy for Music’ (TEAM, 2023-2026, https://teacher-academy-music.eu) is to develop data-based European-wide ‘TEAM Learning Outcomes for Music Teacher Education’. These Learning Outcomes (LOs) are intended for future generalist as well as specialist music teachers, in primary and secondary schools throughout Europe, in an international diversity of teaching and learning environments.

The 2006-2009 EU ‘Music Education Network’ project (meNET) published Learning Outcomes for Specialist Music Teachers and, in 2013, the European Association for Music in Schools (EAS) also published a complementary set of LOs for generalists (Hennessy et al., 2009 & 2013). Originally formulated in both German and English, and officially translated into 5 other languages, the LOs have proven to be valuable instruments for quality assurance in higher education. It was never the intention to standardise teacher education: the LOs were intended to form a basis for ongoing discussion, in an open-ended developmental process.  

In this rapidly changing world, working group 6 (https://teacher-academy-music.eu/WP-6) in TEAM has now revised and updated the existing LOs, with the ambition of formulating future-proof LOs by including societal challenges such as sustainability and democratic education, as well as ‘emergent themes’ derived from analysing national, regional, local and institutional sets of LOs (De Baets et al., 2025). These constitute: diversity and inclusion, practitioner research and professional development, global (artistic) citizenship, interdisciplinarity, collaborations, and digitisation. By formulating and disseminating the new LOs we hope to have a long-term impact on the transformation of music teacher education; for initial teacher education as well as continuous lifelong learning programmes.

In this dissemination workshop (1) I will introduce the new (draft) set of TEAM LOs and the process by which they were formulated, (2) participants will be asked to give detailed feedback on the LOs, in the interactive form of a world café, and (3) we will end with a plenary moment in which we share feedback from the small group discussions. As the final LOs have not yet been fully finalised and published by the conference in November 2025, participants of the workshop will still be able to influence the final wording and form.

• Διαθεματικές προσεγγίσεις στη μουσική εκπαίδευση
• Προγράμματα σπουδών και κριτική προσέγγιση
• Ιστορικές και πολιτισμικές διαστάσεις και σύγχρονες εκπαιδευτικές πρακτικές
• Ψηφιακό περιβάλλον και μουσική εκπαίδευση
• Δια βίου μάθηση των εκπαιδευτικών μουσικής

Prof. dr. Thomas De Baets is Professor of Music Education at LUCA School of Arts and KU Leuven, in Belgium. He leads the Music Education research cluster at the Associated Faculty of the Arts. He served as President of the European Association for Music in Schools (EAS) from 2019 to 2021. He currently chairs the ‘Learning Outcomes for Music Teacher Education’ working group, as part of the TEAM project. Thomas De Baets is a member of the editorial boards of international refereed journals, and honorary member of the EAS. Thomas feels at home in Greece because of his Greek in-laws.