Type: Books & Written Materials

Pedagogical Questions​

This section contains studies on the practices and theories of Calandreta’s cooperative and institutional pedagogy. These are dissertations written as part of the Master’s in “Immersive Bilingual Teaching,” co-led by the University of Perpignan-Via Domitia and Aprene (for ISLRF, the Higher Institute of the Languages of the French Republic).

With the Apprentice Readers

How does one begin reading? By reading to learn to read—and not the other way around,likewise, one writes free texts for, and before, learning to write. This is the fundamental principle of Célestin Freinet’s natural learning methods. It cannot be mandated or improvised: it is an art to allow the young pupil, in their own

Lived Problems and Mathematical Initiation

The moment of inventing problems is an important part of group mathematics work: a collective and intimate moment of creation, elaboration, and inquiry that becomes an object of socialization and exchange. The approach to mathematics, like other disciplines (see free text, journal writing, and correspondence), follows the principles of natural learning methods. Experimental trial and

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

Les métiers une médiation bien commode

Dans ce texte, Fernand Oury précise comment les métiers, institution majeure de la classe coopérative, sont indissociables de deux autres institutions tout aussi centrales : le conseil de coopérative (« institution instituante ») et les ceintures (de niveau, et de comportement). C’est une entrée dans le « matérialisme scolaire » (Freinet) qui fait de la