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Passionate about research in pedagogy and invested in the learning of French as a Foreign Language (creation of a French department in a middle school in Medellin, Colombia), it is during her five years of university in Quebec that Muriel Fifils had her first contact with alternative schools in Montreal and with the Native populations of Canada.

Her work with the cultural services of the French Embassy in Colombia (director of an Alliance Française) also led her to meet other indigenous communities. Back in France, and after a DEA in Francophone and Comparative Studies, she crossed pedagogy and the question of "living" by founding an elementary school in the Drôme, the Caminando school.

For the past 10 years, this school has allowed children to be at the heart of their learning, in an almost self-managed structure, where the link to oneself, to others and to the living is cultivated: "teaching to live", as Edgar Morin says, and with the living, inspired by the first peoples, as the pillar of her daily school life. Muriel also spreads this "living pedagogy" during training sessions for teachers at school or in a still preserved nature, on a training site in the middle of the mountains.