Aims

With our focus group we aim to establish…

• a transnational research network concerning improvisation in music education
• a broad exchange about different understandings of improvisation, didactic approaches and empirical findings from the field.
• the exchange and common differentiation of methods and methodologies to investigate improvisation in the field of music education.
• an increasing visibility and relevance of improvisation in the entire field of music education.

Focus

• A platform for sharing didactic approaches, models of best practice and hands-on experience from music classrooms and other areas of music education
• Shaping a joint transnational community of improvisational practice in music education
• Exchange on interdisciplinary interfaces to improvisation (dance, movement and embodiment, postdigital music technology, impro theatre, improvisation in creative teaching, …) 
• Exchange of empirical results, theoretical knowledge, and research methods on improvisation.
• Design of joint transnational research formats
• Exchange platform for the strategic design and transformation of school and university curricula with a focus on improvisation.