UNIVERSITYOFCASTILLALAM ANCHA

AlbacetesFacultyofEducation
Subject:Contemporarytrendsineducation

Professor:AntonioCebrin

Academicyear20162017

Freinetnowadays

Students:

RebecaGarcaOlivares

JosLpezLpez

JavierdelOlmoM uoz

AndreaTrragaSnchez

SergioTiradoOlivares

MasterdegreeinPrimaryEducation
2coursegroupB

Search on the internet information about the Freinetmovementnowadaysanditsexpansionin

the different countries including Spain. You must try to find out which techniques are still
used today aswere designedbyFreinetandwhichhave beenmodifiedaccordingtothe various
technologicalanddidacticc hanges

FreinetPrinciples
Maythec hildbebuilta sa person.
Fromwhattheyknow,theimportanceofc ooperativea ndparticipativelife.
The relationship of the school with life, take into account the experiences that students
alreadybringwiththem.
Takeintoa ccountindividuallearningrhythms.

Inshort,studentcenteredteaching.

FreinetTechniques

While in Freinets movement, they practised the introduction of the printing press at school,
nowadays,therea reothertechniquesa sdigitalnewspapersorhandicrafts.

Although some techniques have changed, there are other ones that continue existing in schools,for
example, free textsandtokenseconomy.Relatedtofree texts,we have asanexample ,the travelling
bookwheree achc hildc antellhispersonalstoriesa bouthislife.

In terms of Maths, with Freinet not only the theoretical concepts are important,butalsothe relation
with the real life. For this reason,childrenstartedtolearnoutside the classmakingactivitiessuchas
thesolarwatch.

Moreover, apart for the use of written works, we can use other digital tools to make the task more
significanta ndmotivational,someofthesetoolsa rePowerpointa ndvideoe ditors.

Some techniques are not so focus just in ways of improving the process of teachinglearning, some
are designed to develop the whole student, with projects that allow the development of
communication skills,like the the interschool correspondence, that nowadays has changed to some
digital platform as the etwinning instead of exchanging letters with students in others schools,
althoughwrittenlettersisa lsoveryimportantforthedevelopmentofwritting.

SCHOOLSWHEREITISAPPLIED

1. Finland.

Each lesson lasts 90minutes.The pupilsusuallyspendthe thirtyminute recessoutside playinginthe

schoolyard, regardless of the weather. They use the sports field for football in the summer and
skatinginthewinter.

The school follows the pedagogical principles of the Frenchman Clestin Freinet, who underlines
learning by doing and community orientation. Mrs RistolainenHusu points out that both the Finnish
national core curriculumandthe HelsinkicitycurriculumcomplywithFreinetsideas,butStrmberg
Schooltakesthemodelonestepfurther.

This also means that the school has agegroupintegratedclasses,sothateachgrouphaschildrenof

two different ages. In such groups, differences between the children are taken for granted and less
comparisonresults.

Finlandfi. (2009). ThisisFINLAND. Retrieved 10 February, 2017, from

https://finland.fi/lifesociety/adayinthelifeofstrombergschool/

2.Gent.

Vbjkbe. (2017). Vbjkbe. Retrieved 10 February, 2017, from http://www.vbjk.be/files/Focus on the

FreinetschoolsinGent.pdf

Blogspotcomes. (2017). Blogspotcomes. Retrieved 10 February, 2017, from

http://mcarmendevesa.blogspot.com.es/2011/04/freinetenlaactualidad_28.html