Institution, expérimentation, émancipation : autour de la pédagogie institutionnelle

Abstract

This text focuses on institutional pedagogy (IP) as an internal critique of the educational institution. This is a specific critical perspective within the school system since it is based on an approach of the institutional framework as not only repressive but instituting. This means that the institutional framework cannot be reduced to the established order of a place of education, but should instead be regarded as a dynamic unit, which can be challenged and set in motion by instituting practices. In this sense, on the basis of this specific, dynamic conception of the institution, IP enables to approach institutions and emancipation as not necessarily mutually exclusive, but instead as relying on each other with a view to transforming the pedagogical relationship.

Keywords

• institutional pedagogy
• instituting practices
• mediations
• unconscious
• class-group