In our workshop today we talked about the principles of Freinet pedagogy, and after we have brainstormed to see how to apply these principles in our classrooms. We have started to give them names: work plans, free text, self-correction cards, so what's new? Ah, I have lost a tooth, which tooth ... in Austria they have a list of teeth, in Chili they have photographs of smiling toothless faces... the tooth fairy comes to get your teeth from under your pillow. And then we have seen other techniques: school correspondence, living maths ...

Mia Vävare explains what the CA has worked on: the preparation for Benin, the approval of new movements, and a lot of administrative work as well. She also highlights how the multilingual meetings are long and difficult, but the CA team works together well nonetheless.

Saliha and Huela are Palestinian teachers.

Haiti, four years after the earthquake

Jean Marc is keeping the connection between Haiti and the Freinet movement since the RIDEF in Nantes in 2010. 

On Tuesday 22/8, there was a short workshop about the Al Rowwad organisation. Active in Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem, Palestine, the mission of this organisation is to allow young people to express themselves through theatre, dance, photography, painting, and just playing. By expressing themselves, they can be hopeful again, and make beautiful resistance against the ugly oppression. It is better that they live so that Palestine can live, rather than they die so that Palestine can live.

Andrea Sola (ITA), Arnout Vandecappelle (BEL), Claude Beaunis (FRA), Luisanna Ardu (ITA), Renate Thiel (GER), David Almlöf (SWE),Francesca Lepori (ITA),

Anna Maria Matricardi (ITA), Jean Marc Henry (HAI), Jean Daye (BEN), Iara Ciccarelli Dias (ITA), Virginie Marechal (FRA)

We collect informations, impressions, comments, photos, videos, drawings etc. about the RIDEF 2014. Please feel free to come and meet us in classroom 8 of the school Galileo Galilei, or contact one of the people on the picture above. Any kind of content is welcome and will be published on the website. A short newspaper will be printed every day.

 In the long workshop about TalentPrints, Salida and Huda have made their first TalentPrint.