Understanding Freinet

<p class=ql-align-justify>Freinet is one of France's most famous educationalists 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.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Free writing school walks printing student councils etc. are just some of the techniques developed by Freinet at based on pedagogical political psychological and epistemological theories. But do these methods and ideas still have a place today? </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Contributing to the French debate on schools Baptiste Jacomino shows us that Freinet's system is open not without its critics but also open to evolution and adaptation at any time and in any place.</p>