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Freinet, Celestin

Education Through Work A Model for Child-Centered Learning
1993 0-7734-9303-4
This work of educational philosophy is an essay on the psychology of learning, as well as a practical manual for classroom teachers and school planners. Vividly, with clarity and passion, the text offers a detailed treatment of several key themes that run through all of Freinet's career and writing. This translation is based on the 1967 reprint of Freinet's own 1960 revision of his original text L'Education de Travail.

Wisdom of Matthew an Essay in Contemporary French Educational Theory
1990 0-88946-795-1
The first English translation of a witty and seminal work (Les Dits de Mathieu) by a major pedagogue whose contribution to primary-school education has been great, particularly in his native France and in other countries where his works are available in translation.