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The French Educator Celestin Freinet is a complete overview of the influence of this seminal figure. Although Celestin Freinet is virtually unknown outside of France, his ideas about the integration of technology into the classroom are more relevant now than ever. Victor Acker has succeeded in introducing this figure to the American-Anglophone world.The French Educator Celestin Freinet is Acker's greatest achievement in his lifelong mission, which earned him knighthood from the French Government asa Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques. Freinet was an advocate of employing correspondence in the classroom as well as using technology to aid learning. In this study, Acker explores the pedagogical ideas of Freinet with an eye toward contemporary education.The French Educator Celestin Freinet is an essential book on an essential figure in 20th century education.

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Victor Acker brings to life the work and achievements of an extraordinary French educator, C lestin Freinet, who, between World Wars I and II, gave voice to thousands of children in largely remote locations through the use of school printing presses, school journals, and inter-scholastic exchanges. The communication fostered across schools and national boundaries was a forerunner of the Internet that now links students and their teachers around the world. What distinguishes the pedagogy of this pioneeringeducator is the use of communication technologies to encourage child-centered discovery and group learning that celebrated local cultural and community life while acquainting students with the awe-inspiring diversity of previously distant and unknown worlds--even though they may have been but one region away in the same country. Professor Acker's scholarship is noteworthy for its degree of thoroughness in documenting the evolution, extent, and impact of maestro C lestin's life work tha

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Victor Acker teaches philosophy, education, and English at Touro College's Graduate School of Education.

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