Tag: cooperative class institutions

The Free People of Children: Pedagogy, Culture, Politics

This set of three lectures is a presentation, for a Bolivian audience, of the complexity and daily life of a cooperative classroom using Freinet and Institutional Pedagogies. They address the core principles of these pedagogies and classroom life,then, the challenges of organizing collective work and sharing power, responsibilities, and freedoms within the group,and finally, the

Institutional Pedagogy in Preschool

This book provides a firsthand account of implementing institutional pedagogy in a preschool setting. Isabelle Robin, drawing from her extensive experience, illustrates how structured classroom institutions—such as councils, student roles, and collective decision-making—can foster autonomy, cooperation, and a sense of responsibility among young children. The narrative emphasizes the importance of creating a classroom environment where

Harvests of Champ PI: Institutions, Techniques, and Tools for Today’s Classrooms

The authors of the texts in this book teach in public schools or Calandreta Occitan schools in the Hérault region. Practitioners of Institutional Pedagogy, they implement Freinet techniques as well as tools and institutions specific to this pedagogy in their classrooms. As educational artisans in their practice settings, these teachers work with diverse groups: preschool

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

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

Fragments of a Pedagogical Discourse

Selected quotes from books on institutional pedagogy, offering a “speed tour” of its style—both in the lived reality of the classroom and through its specific vocabulary and concepts.