The French Educator Célestin Freinet (1896-1966)

The French Educator Célestin Freinet (1896-1966)
Author: Victor Acker
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780739119242

This book demonstrates how Celestin Freinet influenced education. He was a pioneer in incorporating technology into the classroom.

Cooperative Learning & Social Change

Cooperative Learning & Social Change
Author:
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780921908074

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.

Célestin Freinet

Célestin Freinet
Author: Victor Acker
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The first and only book ever written in English in the world about the French educator Celestin Freinet (1896-1966).

Education Through Work

Education Through Work
Author: Célestin Freinet
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1993
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780773493032

Brave New Schools

Brave New Schools
Author: Jim Cummins
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 382
Release: 1997-03-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0312163584

The first book in the cultural literacy debate that also considers the new classroom technology available to students, Brave New Schools is a vision of schooling for the twenty-first century. A response to the work of Hirsch and Bloom, as well as a guide for parents and teachers, Brave New Schools describes a world of students, teachers, and parents globally connected by the Internet, thereby able to communicate across geographical and cultural barriers once thought impassable. Brave New Schools also contains a valuable section on K-12 networking resources, lists of published materials available, and descriptions of successful networking activities. Stunning in its implications for the future of learning guided by technology, Brave New Schools offers hopeful solutions to the problems of cultural difference and the future of our children.

Alternative Schooling and New Education

Alternative Schooling and New Education
Author: Ralf Koerrenz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2017-11-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319678647

This book examines the European discussion about alternative schooling in the 20th century. It refers to a stream of concepts that are often described as New Education, Progressive Education, Education Nouvelle or Reformpädagogik, and discusses a range of different models of alternative schooling. Exploring the works of a range of continental educational philosophers, including Lietz, Blonsky, Kerschensteiner, Freinet, Decroly and Petersen, the book offers a unique insight into texts not yet translated into English. These educational models are presented with regards to the biographical background of the authors; the crucial elements of their construction; the historical interconnections between schooling, society and culture; and finally their connection to today’s discussions in educational sciences. The book will be highly relevant for researchers and advanced students working on the theory, history and practice of schooling, particularly those with a focus on alternative schooling and the philosophy of education.

Education's Ecosystems

Education's Ecosystems
Author: Bertram C. Bruce
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2020-04-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475851219

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.

The Wisdom of Matthew

The Wisdom of Matthew
Author: Célestin Freinet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 506
Release: 1990
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This is an English translation of a witty and seminal work (Les Dits de Mathieu) by a major pedagogue, Celestin Freinet, whose contribution to primary-school education is regarded as great, particularly in his native France and in other countries where his works are available in translation.

Critical Thinking in Young Children

Critical Thinking in Young Children
Author: Elizabeth Jane Davis
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2000
Genre: Cognition in children
ISBN: 9780773477490

In addition to an introduction and review of the literature (including the theories of Richard Paul and Henry Giroux), the work includes an analysis of transcripts of conversations with young children about their thinking."--BOOK JACKET.