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Célestin Freinet / Victor Acker.
LIBRA LB775 .A255 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Acker, Victor, 1940-
- Series:
- Contributions to the study of education 0196-707X ; no. 78.
- Contributions to the study of education, 0196-707X ; no. 78
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freinet, Célestin.
- Educators--France--Biography.
- Educators.
- France.
- Education--Philosophy.
- Education.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 153 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- The first and only book ever written in English in the world about the French educator Celestin Freinet (1896-1966).
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Who Was Celestin Freinet (1896-1966)? 1
- Celestin Freinet's Intellectual Output 1
- Freinet: Still Unknown in the Anglophone World 7
- Intellectual Foundations of Freinet's Pedagogy 8
- Political Conflicts Affecting Freinet 11
- Eulogizing Freinet 14
- Freinet Is Still Relevant Today 16
- Conclusion: The Importance of Freinet 16
- Chapter 2 The Intellectual Sources of Celestin Freinet 21
- Freinet's Childhood (1896-1912) 22
- Pestalozzi, Educator of the People 24
- Paul Robin, a Frenchman, an Anarchist and an Educator 27
- A Dutch Pedagogue, Jan Ligthart 31
- A Great and Modern Educator: Sanderson 33
- Rabindranath Tagore, Educator 37
- Ferdinand Buisson and the 1882 Dictionnaire Pedagogique 38
- Freinet's First Exchanges: Les Cahiers Roulants 40
- The Belgian Educator Ovide Decroly 42
- Chapter 3 The Saint-Paul Affair: The Road to Vence 49
- The Genesis (1929-early 1932) 51
- The Heart of the Affair (1932) 52
- The Newspapers and Freinet (December 1932) 56
- Was Freinet Dangerous? 58
- A Very Important Letter: December, 18, 1932 59
- The Displacement of Office (1933) 60
- Celestin Freinet and Minister De Monzie (1932-1934) 62
- A Thorn in Freinet's School: The Substitute Causse 69
- Freinet and Simone de Beauvoir 70
- The Foundation of L'Ecole Freinet in Vence (1935-1936) 70
- Chapter 4 The October Revolution and the Birth of the PCF 77
- The Birth of the French Communist Party in Tours 78
- The Role of the PCF 80
- The October Revolution and the French Intellectuals 82
- The October Revolution: The Russian Shock 83
- The Campaign Against Armed Intervention 84
- The Thrust Toward Communism 85
- Today 85
- Chapter 5 The PCF and Its Relationship to Freinet 89
- His Early Writing 89
- The Future Intellectual Communist 92
- Freinet Against the PCF: The Beginning 93
- Georges Snyders, a Key Player 95
- The First Attacks Against Freinet 96
- Celestin and Elise Counterattack 97
- The Attitude of La Nouvelle Critique 99
- The Debate Continues 99
- Elise Freinet's Reply 100
- Georges Cogniot Attacks 101
- Discovering a Letter from Freinet to Cogniot 101
- The Attacks Do Not Stop 105
- L'Ecole et La Nation 105
- Appendix Letter of Freinet to Cogniot 113
- The Beginning (1920-1933) 121
- Before and After WWII (1934-1950) 129
- The Quiet Years (1950-1966) 132
- Books by Celestin and Elise Freinet 134
- Books and Articles by Other Authors 135
- L'Affaire Saint-Paul-de-Vence (1930-1934) 138
- Freinet and the PCF 145.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [121]-148) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313309949
- OCLC:
- 43245528
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