“…Music teacher education has been reduced in other parts of the world, in Finland, for example, music subjects have 5 ECTS credits, so that many content areas are not sufficiently addressed or are overlooked (Suomi et al, 2022). The decline of music education is also reflected at all levels of education and in other countries such as England (Savage, 2020;Whittaker, 2021), Sweden (Mateos-Moreno, 2022), Australia (Barret et al, 2019) or New Zealand (Browne, 2022). This reality of music education is leading to an impoverishment of music in public education and an expansion of private provision (Aprile, 2021;Young, 2021).…”