Freinet Renovation 2027

For the past 8 years, a working group has been active within the Freinet Cooperative that is deeply committed to the Freinet pedagogy, its future, and its further development. One of the motivations for these meetings is the concern that the Freinet pedagogy is perceived as a “niche movement.” Our goal is to give the enormous pedagogical potential of the Freinet approach greater recognition and impact in the current educational discourse and in the practice of teaching, learning, and learning support. The following topics have been considered so far:

• To hatch impulses for the further development of the cooperative for Freinet pedagogy and concrete actions for the coming year. We are concerned with issues such as public image, organization of the cooperative, cooperation, membership recruitment…
• Getting involved in the current educational discourse: Where is there potential in Freetian experiential knowledge that is not yet sufficiently communicated? Here we consider how we can get involved in politics, the media, administration and educational movements…
• Freinet concrete: discuss cases & questions from our respective daycare/school/university days
  and provide mutual advice.
• Space for creative sessions – a must: Music in the cozy fireplace room, arts, games, being outside, …
• Further ideas and impulses are of course very welcome.
• Registration deadline: November 26 , 2026