Making music to investigate our neighbourhood: the Musiquem program

Abstract

This paper presents an educational program based on community music activity within the classroom to develop a service-learning project. The project was carried out in a primary school with students of the 3rd, 4th and 5th grade. It was designed and developed in collaboration with primary teachers, professional musicians and researchers in the field of education. During three months, the students developed musical skills in relation to rhythm, musical and body expression and undertook a project to research about their neighbourhood, in order to explore and disseminate knowledge and social and cultural possibilities of the area to the community. The text explores potentialities and challenges of educational projects that include features such as being inherently interdisciplinary, designed to be inter-level and which bring different actors (teachers, professionals, researchers) into the same educational space.