The Fabrication of the Autonomous Learner Ethnographies of Educational Practices in Switzerland, France and Germany

SECTION 1: Effects of pedagogical approaches to foster autonomy in preschool (école maternelle) and primary school  1. Autonomous workshops and individual Montessori-type activities: An analysis of their effects on learning and inequalities  2. Invented spelling for achieving literacy on one's own: A persistent ideal of autonomy producing inequalities  3. The "pedagogy of autonomy": Similar educational tools for a variety of teaching practices  4. The didactics of autonomy in multigrade classrooms  5. "Notice how you feel" and "train your brain." Mindfulness meditation as a technology of the self in education  SECTION 2: Teachers' guidance of pupil autonomy in secondary schools  6. (Un)supervised autonomy: Getting pupils to "take responsibility" for their learning  7. Doing reflexivity in a self-directed learning setting  8. Group pedagogy and the acquisition of autonomy in learning  9. Practicing social distinction when supervising pupils' autonomous projects  SECTION 3: Autonomy concerns in the context of educational reforms: Inclusion and digitalization  10. Inside the "cocoon" of special education classes. When autonomy serves as a gold standard for reorienting children  11. On the norm of individual autonomy in school  12. The (de)construction of the autonomous learner in a digitalized school world