Adolphe Ferrière
Adolphe Ferrière was one of the founders of the movement of the progressive education.
He worked for a brief time in a school in Glarisegg and later founded an experimental school in Lausanne, Switzerland, but soon had to abandon teaching due to his deafness. In 1921, he founded the New Education Fellowship, for which he wrote the charter. The congress of this league until the Second World War included a number of other teachers: Maria Montessori, Célestin Freinet, Gisèle de Failly and Roger Cousinet. He worked as a humanist and an editor from 1919 to 1922 on the pacifist journal 'l'Essor'. He was one of the founding members of the International Bureau of Education in 1925, and served as its first Deputy Director alongside Elisabeth Rotten. He was also a member of the Religious Society of Friends. Throughout his life he published a substantial number of books, some in collaboration with Karl-Ernst Krafft.
He is listed as one of the 100 most famous educators, by the International Bureau of Education.Publications
- Science and faith, Delachaux and Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1912
- The law of progress in biology and sociology, Delachaux and Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1915
- Transforming schools, Delachaux and Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1920
- The autonomy of students, Delachaux and Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1921
- The spontaneous activity in children, Delachaux and Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1922
- Education in the family, Delachaux and Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1920
- The practice of active school, Delachaux and Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1922
- The active school, 1920
- The coééducation gender, Delachaux and Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1926.
- Spiritual progress, Delachaux and Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1926
- Bakula and his work educator, 1926
- The maternal heart Pestalozzi, Delachaux and Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1928
- The psychological types in children, in adults and in the course of education, Delachaux and Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1922
- The future of genetic psychology, Delachaux and Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1931
- The school measure, Delachaux and Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1931
- Characterological typocosmique, Geneva and Paris, 1932.
- In collaboration with Karl-Ernst Krafft
- Our children and the future of the country, Delachaux and Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1942
- Human liberation, Éditions du Mont Blanc, Geneva, 1943
- Towards a natural classification of psychological types, Nice, 1943
- Children's Home after the war, Delachaux and Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1945
- The school workforce across Europe, Michon, Paris, 1948
- Brief introduction to the new education, Bourrelier, Paris, 1951
- The mystery of the person, Rigois, Turin, 1955
