Entry Category: Educational Practices & Pedagogies / Teacher Training

Who Is the Council? The Law in the Classroom

in the beginning, a class of children, a schoolteacher. How to move from chatter to speech? From the classroom as space to the classroom as a place? How to transition from a wild space where the law of the jungle prevails to a collective living space where each can exist as an “I”? At the

Handbook of Institutional Pedagogy: Making the Classroom an Educational Environment

This book, in the making for four years, is actually a project thirty years in the making: to create a handbook of Institutional Pedagogy. But how to express what is possible to achieve? If explaining Institutional Pedagogy were enough, everyone would know it. The cooperative class doesn’t come in a kit and cannot exist without

Chapter 5: The Unconscious

This book, in the making for four years, is actually a project thirty years in the making: to create a handbook of Institutional Pedagogy. But how to express what is possible to achieve? If explaining Institutional Pedagogy were enough, everyone would know it. The cooperative class doesn’t come in a kit and cannot exist without

Group Experiences in Institutional Pedagogy

In this book, Patrick Geffard analyzes both the practice and theory of groups as proposed by institutional pedagogy, and how this pedagogy itself, historically and structurally, relates to intergenerational dynamics—how groups form, dissolve, face crises, and regenerate.

Fric Story

Monograph,internal currency,relationship to value,motivation,desire to learn

Ilhem Belarbi,Tell Me a Story

Ilhem Belarbi, a PhD candidate at Paris 8, teacher working with migrant children in Germany, videographer, and herself a migrant, tells her cultural, familial, and linguistic story, poetically tracing its origins through an animated film. Her work also spans cooperative pedagogy, didactic tools, and the multilingual inclusion of migrant children.