In this text, Fernand Oury explains how class jobs, a major institution in the cooperative classroom, are inseparable from two other equally central institutions: the cooperative council (“instituting institution”) and the belts (for level and behavior). This is an entry into “school materialism” (Freinet), which makes the class a self-managed group, a group-subject, but above
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Towards an Institutional Pedagogy
Institutional pedagogy remains a current pedagogy, for conducting classes and learning to teach. Pedagogy is a way of accompanying children to grow through the transmission of knowledge. Teaching that not only meets cultural requirements of school competence but, above all, aims to foster the children’s desire to feel happy learning within a collective.
From the Cooperative Classroom to Institutional Pedagogy
The « red book » of institutional pedagogy captivates the imagination. The institutional now becomes essential. The law establishes the desire to know. Conducting the class, not just well, but better, is the lesson, page after page, of this book of sensitive pedagogy. For a long time now, pedagogy has proven itself. In classes that have become