Contribution of Freinet pedagogy to Education for Peace

Abstract

This article offers a vision which connects Freinet pedagogy to Education for Peace, trying to point out the coincidences between both educational proposals, and, at the same time, enumerating the contributions made by the Célestin Freinet proposal which help for the practice of Education for Peace in the school context.

Everything is part of a research that focuses its study on Freinet pedagogy as part of an educational movement which compromises with the educational renovation and the social transformation. In order to carry out this research, the use of a methodological complementarity between the qualitative and the critical approach has been utilised. On the other hand, the main technique used to collect information has been the interview with those teachers who have implemented Freinet pedagogy in the classroom.

Taking into account the testimonies of these teachers, a series of educational proposals and techniques could be highlighted. These ones are in favour of the practice of Education for Peace in the classroom and they are part of Freinet proposal. Among the Freinet techniques, it should be emphasised the classroom assembly, which is the one that makes it possible to improve the living together in the classroom at the same time that it is supported on principles, such as, the cooperation.