Freinet pedagogy is a child-centered teaching movement developed by French educator Celestin Freinet in the 1920s, built around cooperative classroom work, a printing press pupils used to publish their own texts, free written expression, and correspondence exchanged between classes in different schools in place of a fixed textbook curriculum. It spread through teacher cooperative movements across France and later into other countries, and Freinet-inspired schools remain active today, particularly in France, Italy and parts of Latin America.
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Central QuestionCan children learn most effectively through real work, experimental trial and error and cooperative production, rather than through observation, explanation and demonstration by the teacher? 1 Classification
Education LevelPrimary Education (ISCED 1) 1 Freinet Pedagogy
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Concepts of Freinet's pedagogy section, pedagogical constant 11
The normal path of [knowledge] acquisition is not observation, explanation and demonstration, the essential process of the School, but experimental trial and error, a natural and universal process.
Biography, teaching career from 1920
In 1920 he became an elementary schoolteacher in the village of Le Bar-sur-Loup.
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It was here that Freinet began to develop his teaching methods.
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It was here that Freinet began to develop his teaching methods.
Developed By: Celestin Freinet, sections of the article
It was here that Freinet began to develop his teaching methods.
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Open learning as a teaching method is founded on the work of Célestin Freinet in France and Maria Montessori in Italy, among others.
Lorenzo Milani (Wikipedia)
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inspired by the cooperative writing method promoted by Mario Lodi and influenced by Celesine Freinet
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