Freinet Pedagogy Principles

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[...] - The work plan. Each child develops a work plan every week with work axes and objectives to be achieved. Similarly, the rules of life in the community are decided and managed by the council, where problems and feelings of each one are also discussed together. It is therefore clear that the Freinet pedagogy is an educational system where the autonomy, creation, and freedom of the learner are at stake. However, does this people's school not present . limits to which every educator must reflect in order to engage their class in a Freinet pedagogy? [...]

[...] So who was Célestin Freinet and in what context did he develop his theories? Freinet was born in a small village in the Alpes Maritimes in 1896. Coming from a very poor family, he began his studies to become a teacher. At that time, the First World War broke out and Freinet was mobilized. This experience was decisive for the destiny of the pedagogue and his practice. Having been assigned to the Chemin des Dames, he suffered a serious injury from which he would keep lifelong consequences. [...]

[...] Freinet obtained the support of Jaurès during the Popular Front and was inquired by the Vichy regime. However, at Liberation, the Communist Party accused him of collaboration and a conflict broke out over the film "The School in the Woods". Freinet broke with the PCF and the concept of the proletarian school, but kept the cooperative aspect." Concretely, what are the practices associated with these principles? - The first moment of the day is crucial, it is the 'What's new?' which ensures the transition between the outside world and the classroom. [...]

[...] He left, for example, "pedagogical invariants" which are general basic principles of his theory. But overall, here is the major axes of his pedagogy: - The freedom and power of imagination. This is as much for the teacher as for the learner to free themselves from traditional teaching with its constraints and manuals, which Freinet calls "scolastic", thus placing themselves in an old quarrel that goes back to Rousseau. The natural method and experimental trial and error are privileged, which are implemented in the learning of speech and walking, for example. [...]

[...] Education - What are the major principles of Freinet pedagogy? For the People's School is a major work in the field of pedagogy. Written by Célestin Freinet and published in 1946, then re-published in 1974 by Petite collection Maspero, it constitutes in some way the manifesto of its author where he exposes the pedagogical principles that are his own and which he has implemented throughout his career. Indeed, the career of Célestin Freinet began much earlier, and this from the end of the First World War. [...]