[News] The Balearic Islands will require Catalan from music and drama teachers

[SougarLord]

 

Knowing Catalan to teach music or interpretation classes. It is the latest turn of the screw in the linguistic policy of the Government of the socialist Francina Armengol, which is preparing a new regulation that will affect the teachers of the Balearic Higher Conservatory of Music and also of the Balearic Higher School of Dramatic Art, which until now they were exempt from knowing Catalan to teach.

 

The Balearic Department of Education has confirmed to ABC that "it wants to put Catalan requirements for these teachers in the regulations that regulate the higher artistic entity", since "currently workers are not required to have a Catalan level". The same sources do not detail when this requirement will come into force, since it is at the beginning of the regulation process.

 

"The teachers of higher artistic education are not affected by secondary training certificates but equivalent to university", argue from the department of Martí March, elected position of the PSOE, who recall that all the unions of the sectorial table voted in favor except Unió Obrera Balear.

The intention of Education is that a level "equivalent" to that required of secondary education teachers is required. This would be a C1 level, an advanced level, which implies being able to «understand a wide range of long and complex texts, and recognize their implicit meaning», in addition to «expressing oneself fluently and spontaneously, and using the language in a flexible way and effective for social, academic and professional purposes ”, according to the official website of the Government regarding the command of the C1 level of Catalan.

 

In this way, Education prepares a modification of the Order of March 8, 2018, which establishes the necessary qualifications to teach classes in and in Catalan in non-university regulated education and where equivalences and exemptions from the evaluation are established. of the Catalan language and literature in non-university education.

If the Higher Conservatory of Music of the Balearic Islands defines itself as "a benchmark for musical studies at a national and international level", the Balearic Government has just closed the window of internationalization to the world. The entity is made up of a varied group of high-level professionals -some foreigners- who teach the specialties of interpretation (classical and jazz), composition, musicology and pedagogy. These are studies equivalent to university degrees "for all intents and purposes", the entity details on its website.

 

In addition, pedagogues, interpreters, composers and musicologists from all over the world give 'masterclasses' at the Superior Conservatory of Music of the Balearic Islands, which is defined as "a benchmark in musical studies, nationally and internationally."

 

Comparative Tort

In the Superior School of Dramatic Art the teachings are given to obtain the Superior Title of Dramatic Art in the specialty of Interpretation. These studies have a duration of four years and are equivalent to a university degree, so the new requirement will represent a comparative offense with respect to university professors, who are not obliged to accredit the linguistic requirement.

 

Since he came to power in 2015, Armengol's linguistic interventionism has been on the rise. One of the first measures was to repeal the decree of trilingualism in schools to give more weight to Catalan and also modified the Public Function Law so that Catalan was considered a requirement to work in the public administration. In her second term, since 2019, the socialist president has ceded all language policy to the most radical sector of Més, the one that militates in ERC.