Introduction or Prelude

Abstract

This book is the result of work done over a period of four years, of studies conducted in distant geographic spaces that provided the context for a rich experience with more than 280 students, seven teachers, six different places, and three languages in four different countries (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and Switzerland). This experiment is an adaptation of my doctoral thesis in which I designed and observed creative student-teacher interaction in a variety of educational contexts. The discipline chosen for this study is that of music education. At the beginning of this experience, I worked as a professor of music education in the secondary school “Les Cerisiers”, as a professor in a teacher education program, and as a researcher in the Haute École Pédagogique BEJUNE in Switzerland. The ages of the students that participated most actively in this project range from 11 to 13 years old. However, some activities were carried out with even younger students.