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
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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
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.
The Market Place. In the ChamPIgnon group of Béziers
Institutional cooperative classroom,inner currency,symbolic law,self-worth,effort and exchange,anthropology of money
Fric Story
Monograph,internal currency,relationship to value,motivation,desire to learn
Christian, Cleanliness, and Money
Monograph,internal currency,therapeutic function,enuresis,social and group law,freedom and exchange
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
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.
Pedagogy and Language
In this book by Pierre Johan Laffitte, institutional pedagogy is examined in dialogue with the human and language sciences, exploring how a cooperative classroom intertwines institutional life, cultural group life, political and cultural commonality, and the singularity of speech and desire. It addresses linguistic and cultural identity, translingual/transcultural dimensions, and their ethical and political stakes