We wish to extend our grateful thanks to the researchers who worked with us on this book:

• Rosvita Kolb and Denise Perdigão Pereira

• Esther Collados and Laura Morejon

• Kathy Mackey and Venus Ganis

• Alison Aune, Jen Dietrich and Sarah Mennes

• Mirjana Tomasevic Dancevic

• Georgia Kakourou Chroni

• Emil Gaul and Csaba Pál

• Jurema L. F. Sampaio-Ralha

• Ishii Masayuki

• Tembo João Sinanhal

Particular thanks are due to all the teachers’ who helped us in collecting the data and their students who enthusiastically gave us their drawings expressing their most sincere thoughts, hopes, interests and expectations providing us the material to show their visions of the world. Specially thanks to:

• The art teachers of Queensland Academy for Creative Industries, and their students (Australia)

• Year 10 students of 2007 and Visual Arts staff from The Gap State High School (Brisbane, Australia)

• Harbor City International School art teachers Aryn Bergsven and Robb Quisling and their students (U.S.A.).

• Escola Nacional de Artes Visuais and students (Mozambique).

• Xantus Secondary, School for Tourisme and Commerce, Éva Magyar art teacher and students. Árpád Gimnasium School, Nóra Gergely art teacher and students (Hungary).

• Profª Ana Pinto Duarte Pães and Prof. Getúlio Nogueira de Sá and their students (Jundiaí E.E., Brazil).

• E.M.E.F.Monterrey – Louveira; Escola Consuelo Coelho de Souza. Escola Sandoval Soares de Azevedo, Colégio Santo Agostinho, teachers Paulo Ricardo Tânia Lima and Rosângela and their students (Brazil)

• ESAM, Esc. Sec. De Valadares and Escola Sec Pedro Nunes, art teachers Adelino Pinto, Carolina Rocha, Ana Teresa Lobo and Margarida Marinho, Eduardo Salvisa and students (Portugal).

• The 3rd High School of Sparta and High School of Geraki, teacher Maria Oikonomou at and students.

• EASD (Escuela Superior de Arte y Diseño de Olot), Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona and IES Viceng Plantada. Teachers Marta and Helena and their students.

• Vocational School, Osijek; Art School, Osijek, (Skola za tekstil, dizajn i primijenjene umjetnosti, Osijek); teachers: Olga Spikic Smit, and Marko Sosic and their students; Grammar School, Split (I. gimnazija, Split), teachers: Jasenka Splivalo, J. Splivalo and their students. Art School, Split, (Skola likovnih umjetnosti, Split), teacher: Julijana Voloder and students. Grammar School, Vukovar (Gimnazija Vukovar, Vukovar), art history teacher Ljiljana Ajdukovic and students. Art School, Zagreb (Skola primijenjene umjetnosti i dizajna, Zagreb), teachers Damir Brcic and Marcela Munger and their students.

• Creative Kids art organization

• Kitateshima Junior High School

We will never forget the great support we had from the International Society for Education through Art (www.insea.org) during our presentations in Heidelberg and Osaka, through their constructive feedback and encouragement. And finally our thanks are due to the directors of schools and museums who gave us the opportunity to undertake the study.