Louis Riboulet

Louis Riboulet.

Louis Riboulet (1871 — 1944) was a French pedagogue, writer and professor of philosopher in Notre-Dame de Valbenoîte, author of several works dealing on teaching methods.

Biography

Riboulet made ​​his first studies at the school of the Marist Brothers in their homeland. In 1886 he entered the seminary of the same religious congregation in Saint-Genis-Laval and three years after , gets the title schoolteacher, by examining the state. Given invitation, will, in January 1890, to North America, where it remains until 1914.

Earned him much, for your teacher training, research and educational observations made during this period in the city of Iberville, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada, and the United States. Applying intensely studies, he graduated from the Institute of Scientific Study, University of New York. Mobilized back to France in 1914 and, years later, returns to teaching, practicing their activities at the College of Notre Dame of Valbenoîte in Saint-Étienne. In 1925 he published five volumes in the Historie de la Pédagogie, prize-winning work by the French Academy the following year. Followed Psychologie appliquée à l'Éducation, Conseils sur le Travail intellectuel, La Discipline Préventive et ses Éléments Essentiels and Méthodologie Générale. As a posthumous work, appeared L'Eglise et l'Éducation de l'Ère Chrétienne au XIV Siècle. Louis Riboulet still found time to act as a columnist in several magazines and prestigious education, including Bulletin des Études, Revue Catéchistique and Revue Belge de Pédagogie.

Riboulet was contrary to traditional expedients of education prevailing at the time, which included physical punishment to students who did not have a good academic performance.

Works

• Conseils sur le Travail Intellectuel: aux Étudiants et aux Jeunes Maîtres
• Historie de la Pédagogie (5 vols)
• L'Eglise et l'Éducation
• La Discipline Préventive et ses Éléments Essentiels
• Manuel de Psychologie Appliquée à l'Éducation
• Pédagogie Generale