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
Type: Books & Written Materials
Anthropology of the Singular
Every living human environment or group develops a culture in the anthropological sense of the term…
Language Immersion
This section contains studies on the practices and theories of Calandreta’s immersive bilingual 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).
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).
Immersive bilingualism, psycholinguistics, and natural learning methods.
This collection of three articles, published in The Year of Research in Educational Sciences, originates from a round table held at a conference in Bordeaux…
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.
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
Language Beyond Words: A Meeting at the Dawn of Language Between Institutional Psychotherapy and Peircean Semiotics
Charles S. Peirce’s semiotics,institutional psychotherapy,vague logic,abductive logic,subjective singularity,psychic suffering