Decroly method

The Decroly method was essentially a program of work based on centres of interest and educative games. Its basic feature was the workshop-classroom, in which children freely went about their own occupations. Behind the complex of individual activities was a carefully organized scheme of work based…

Unlike Montessori’s children, however, Decroly’s children worked in groups, and, like the Agazzis’ children, they worked with real things drawn from everyday life. His educational system was based on three processes: observation, expression (oral, written, manual, or artistic), and association of space and time. He felt the universal needs…

…program became known as the Decroly method.