Yves Baticle and Christophe Pavie. Écrire un roman coopératif avec sa classe. (Writing a cooperative novel with one’s class). Preface by Sylvain Connac. Lyon: Éditions de la Chronique sociale, coll. Pédagogie Formation, 2020. Pp. 144. ISBN 978-2-36717-677-2

Abstract

Developing the sense of writing with one’s class through a cooperative novel. Yves Baticle and Christophe Pavie, the first being headmaster and teacher, trainer of young teachers, intervenient at the University of Caen in the interdegrees, the second, trainer in French, in interdisciplinarity, in the interdegrees, in interculturality and in international courses at the INSPÉ (Institut National Supérieur du Professorat et de l’Éducation) of the University of Caen, Normandy, offer us, through this perfectly structured book, a method of didactic approach to writing through the creation of a novel. Dedicated to students aged 8 to 12, this book can expand its target audience up to 18 years. The discerning reader, the teacher interested in improving his working methods with the students and preparing them for a better world, will find much to learn from these experiences. Another very important finding in the economy of this book is that it is addressed only to teachers endowed with a particular sensitivity for reading, able to live the pulse of words and sentences, able to combine ideas and endowed with enormous patience and the joy of offering. For the profession of teacher, more than any other or a little like that of a doctor or a priest, is not a profession, it is a vocation that involves the spirit of sacrifice, the happiness of offering, an enormous patience. If all this exists, the result of the work with students is guaranteed. Would there be a greater reward?