New school of Antony

The new school of Antony is a French experimental school created in 1961. Its pedagogy is based on the contributions of the active Méthodes, the Pédagogie of project and the institutional Pédagogie.

History

The new school of Antony was created in October 1961 on an associative project. During the closing of the school of the father Beaver, a group of parents and teachers decide to take an action pursuant to him, and thanks to the support of personalities as Gustave Monod which agrees to be a honorary president about it installs in new buildings close to the Parc of Seals. Nina Rist, teacher at the school of the Father Beaver, takes the direction of the school.

The school granted as much importance to the artistic activities and body that with the traditional lesson. The training of the music, as with the House of children of Sevres or with the New School of Boulogne, begins with construction by the children the pipeaux one of bamboo. In the same way, modern mathematics is approached in a concrete way by handling of the small rules Cuisenaire and the logical building blocks of Zoltan Dienes, then in 1967 a collaboration is started with Nicole Picard, which will continue until 1994. A workshop painting Arno Stern is created by one of its pupils in 1964, against the opinion of this one which estimates that its practice cannot apply within the framework of a school.

At the end of the years 1960, the teachers take part in work of the school Vitruve and the experimental group of 20th, carried out by Robert Gloton, then, in the teaching boiling of the years 1970, with the creation of a group of GFEN to Antony. In 1976, the school takes part in the training courses of the teaching National research institute and in its study a new organization of the elementary school .

From the years 1980, it practices a Pédagogie of project inspired by work of the GFEN.

The school underwent an important crisis with the death of its founder, Nina Rist, in 1994 and failed to disappear. She adopted since a collegial operation, the director being co-opted by the pedagogical team for one three years duration.

Since 1995, a Recreational center was open to make it possible to the families to have reception facilities extra school in continuity of pedagogy of the school. It is opened with all the children from 3 to 12 years, which they are provided education for at the school or not.

Statute

The new school of Antony is managed by a Association with nonlucrative goal, the Research center in pedagogy activates . This association gathers the members of the educative team, the parents and old of the school.

The school is under contract of association with the State, and member of the National association for the development of New Education. The recreational center profits from an approval from departmental management from youth and sports.

In 2007, she is attended by 150 various children of social environment coming from a score of communes of the neighborhoods of Antony.

Pedagogy

Exit of the school of the father Beaver, the new school of Antony always attached an particular importance to the book. The Bibliothèque is placed in the middle of the school, so that the children can reach it by themselves as of more the young age. The reading aloud by the librarian or an organizer is regarded as one of the most active factors of incentive to read.

The search for personal or collective documentation is directly in relation to the work carried out in class. The children learn how there to find what they seek, and to choose what interests them.

The tools of natural training of the reading, such as the drafting of free texts for the newspaper of school and the school correspondence, are also used, but with a least degree that in Pédagogie Freinet.

Work in Pédagogie of project gives to the child freedom to choose a subject which interests it, to only work above, or with other children, and to prepare around this subject a practical work: exposed, model, spectacle that it will present to the group and the school. Individual work is managed by the development of plans of week, which allows a evaluation without recourse to the notes.

The democratic life in the school is regulated by practices inspired of the institutional Pédagogie:

the co-operative Staff meeting is the place of discussion of the rules of life in the class, of research solution for the small conflicts.
the patents of behavior (called belts in institutional pedagogy) are used to recognize the corportementaux assets, and to grant the corresponding responsibilities.

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