La Pedagogía Freinet en España: la importancia del Movimiento Cooperativo de Escuela Popular (MCEP)

Abstract

This paper analyzes historically the origin and the development of Freinet Movement in Spain: the Cooperative Movement of people's school (MCEP), which belongs to the International Federation of Moderne School Movements and which, complying with people's and cooperative pedagogy of Célestin Freinet, inserts itself in the varied frame of the educational renewal. It illustrates an historical analysis of MCEP, retracing the stages of Freinet Pedagogy diffusion in Spain. Moreover, it describes the educational principles that guide the action of the MCEP educators, as well as the teaching techniques adopted by them. These principles and techniques, which enhance the expressive and responsive ability of pupils, coincide with the pedagogical principles and teaching techniques developed by Freinet, whose pedagogical proposal still represents a peculiar way to realize the educational practice at school, contributing to the improvement of the teaching-learning process.