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The French Educator Celestin Freinet is a complete overview of the influence of this seminal figure. Although Celestin Freinet is virtually unknown outside of France, his ideas about the integration of technology into the classroom are more relevant now than ever. Victor Acker has succeeded in introducing this figure to the American-Anglophone world.The French Educator Celestin Freinet is Acker's greatest achievement in his lifelong mission, which earned him knighthood from the French Government asa Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques. Freinet was an advocate of employing correspondence in the classroom as well as using technology to aid learning. In this study, Acker explores the pedagogical ideas of Freinet with an eye toward contemporary education.The French Educator Celestin Freinet is an essential book on an essential figure in 20th century education.
The first and only book ever written in English in the world about the French educator Celestin Freinet (1896-1966).
Estudio sobre el pedagogo francés Celestin Freinet (1896-1966), fundador de la Escuela Moderna.
Célestin Freinet (1896-1966) spent his whole life teaching in small rural elementary schools in the south of France. From this base, he pioneered an international movement for radical educational reform through cooperative learning. Freinet's Modern School Movement has provided the network through which a broad community of teachers have come to know his remarkable variety of innovative classroom approaches: the importance of creative and useful work for children learning and close observation of how they do it; a direct appreciation for the natural world; a commitment to developing appropriate technologies for the classroom; and a strong emphasis on linking school and community with the wider issues of social justice and action. Cooperative Learning and Social Change offers an introduction to a powerful pedagogical method that remains fresh and relevant today. An Our Schools/Our Selves book.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit / Sozialarbeit, Note: 1,5, Hochschule Bremen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 3. Grundannahmen und Prinzipien In der normalen Regelschule werden die individuellen Gefühle, Bedürfnisse und Interessen der Kinder unzureichend berücksichtigt (Baillet, 1999: 16). Die Schüler haben weder Einfluss auf die Mitgestaltung des Unterrichts, noch auf die Bewertungsmaßstäbe (Kock, 2006: 66). Sie lernen dass die Entscheidungsmacht immer andere haben und dass sie dies akzeptieren müssen, was jede Eigeninitiative unterdrückt. Die Schüler haben bestimmten Normen zu entsprechen, die Hauptsorge des Erziehers ist, dass diese Normen respektiert we...
Education’s Ecosystems offers a new perspective on learning that is integrated and connected to lived experience. It presents a model for salient characteristics of both biological and pedagogical ecosystems, involving diversity, interaction, emergence, construction, interpretation. Examples from around the world show how learning can be made more whole and relevant. The book should be valuable to educators, parents, policy makers, and anyone interested in democratic education.
Building on her enormously popular book, Bringing Reggio Emilia Home, Louise Cadwell helps American educators understand what it means to use ideas from the Reggio Approach in their classrooms. In new and dynamic ways, Cadwell once again takes readers inside the day-to-day practice of a group of early childhood educators. This time she describes the growth and evolution of the work in the St. Louis Reggio Collaborative over the past 10 years.