1st Edition
The Fabrication of the Autonomous Learner Ethnographies of Educational Practices in Switzerland, France and Germany
SECTION 1: Effects of pedagogical approaches to foster autonomy in preschool (école maternelle) and primary school 1. Autonomous workshops and individual Montessori-type activities: An analysis of their effects on learning and inequalities Ariane Richard-Bossez 2. Invented spelling for achieving literacy on one’s own: A persistent ideal of autonomy producing inequalities Fabienne Montmasson-Michel 3. The "pedagogy of autonomy": Similar educational tools for a variety of teaching practices Julien Netter & Christoph Joigneaux 4. The didactics of autonomy in multigrade classrooms Laura Weidmann & Ursula Fiechter 5. "Notice how you feel" and "train your brain." Mindfulness meditation as a technology of the self in education Jeanne Rey SECTION 2: Teachers’ guidance of pupil autonomy in secondary schools 6. (Un)supervised autonomy: Getting pupils to "take responsibility" for their learning Héloïse Durler & Crispin Girinshuti 7. Doing reflexivity in a self-directed learning setting Regula Fankhauser, Judith Hangartner & Ditjola Naço 8. Group pedagogy and the acquisition of autonomy in learning Marie-Sylvie Claude & Patrick Rayou 9. Practicing social distinction when supervising pupils’ autonomous projects Stéphane Vaquero SECTION 3: Autonomy concerns in the context of educational reforms: Inclusion and digitalization 10. Inside the "cocoon" of special education classes. When autonomy serves as a gold standard for reorienting children Laurent Bovey 11. On the norm of individual autonomy in school Thorsten Merl 12. The (de)construction of the autonomous learner in a digitalized school world Mario Steinberg & Yannick Schmid
Biography
Judith Hangartner is Professor at the University of Teacher Education, Bern, Switzerland.
Héloïse Durler is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Teacher Education, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Regula Fankhauser is Professor at the University of Teacher Education, Bern, Switzerland.
Crispin Girinshuti is Lecturer and Scientific Collaborator at the University of Teacher Education, Lausanne, Switzerland.
