ABSTRACT

This article deals with the mechanisms of pedagogical appropriation of an educational innovation, the so-called "centres of interest", which are identified with the Belgian pedagogue Ovide Decroly. It analyses the ways in which pedagogical knowledge about the centres of interest circulated among peer groups, i.e. how teachers communicated their school trials and practices to each other. And we study how these processes of transfer between peers transformed the mechanisms of appropriation of Decrolyan school practices.

Keywords:
Pedagogical appropriation; centres of interest; educational innovation; Decroly; Spain