Institutional Pedagogy

Institutional pedagogy is an educational practice founded by the French teacher Fernand Oury that centers on two ideas, recognizing that each learner is a complex person, and recognizing the unconscious social, economic and cultural influences that teachers themselves bring into the classroom. Rather than smoothing over the social and cultural differences among learners, institutional pedagogy treats those differences as part of the educational process itself. Oury described the institution broadly as the places, moments, and standing of each person according to how well they perform, along with the rituals that keep those roles working. The approach broke with education as it had generally been practiced before the 1960s by treating the classroom itself, and its own rules and arrangements, as something to keep questioning and reworking rather than as a fixed setting. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/