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6. Center of interests: Children have to follow their own interest, but also they have to experience the necessity of knowing more about history, geography, biology and health education.
7. School correspondence: All Freinet’s schools are in contact through letters, tapes and videotapes in order to share ideas, experiences, proposals and text.
8. Printing techniques: students have to make copies of the same poster/newspaper. (by hand)
9. Class or school newspaper: all students can have the opportunity of publishing one of his/her printed texts.
10. Creative work: students have the freedom to create whatever they want to. Freneit wanted to make sure children could follow their interests, because when there is a link between a topic and a child, it is when students can learn in a meaningful way.
Some of the main principles of Freinet’s methodology are the following:
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Field investigations: students can go outside to explore the surroundings and investigate something. Then they come back to the class to share what they have learned with the rest of the class.
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Pedagogy work: when students do something useful, they learn. When pupils are capable of seeing that what they are doing has a purpose or a final product, they have a deeper learning.
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Cooperative Learning: sometimes, a peer is the best way to learn something. When students work together, they help each other and learn from each other.