Understanding Freinet

Freinet is one of France''s most famous pedagogues, but his work is the subject of many misunderstandings and misleading simplifications, which the author dispels by going back to the fundamentals of the thinker''s work: free writing, the school walk, printing, student councils, etc. are all techniques developed by Freinet on the basis of pedagogical, political, psychological or epistemological theories, but do these methods and ideas still have a place today? But do these methods and ideas still have a place today? Baptiste Jacomino''s contribution to the French debate on schooling shows that Freinet''s system is open-ended, not without its critics, but also conducive to evolution and adaptation at any time and in any place.Baptiste Jacomino est docteur en sciences de l’éducation et a enseigné l’histoire et la philosophie de l’éducation. Il est l’auteur de Alain et Freinet : une école contre l’autre ? (L’Harmattan), de Alain (Ellipses) et Camus (Ellipses). Il appartient au comité de rédaction de la revue Le Philosophoire.Yves Rouvière collabore depuis 2011 à la collection Comprendre (Freud, Marx, Sade, Lacan, L’anarchisme, Hitler et les Allemands, Péguy, Fanon).