Full Description
This book, written by educators with a wealth of expertise across all age phases, provides an accessible, informative and thought-provoking exploration of how practitioners might place the human-centred values of social pedagogy at the heart of their own education and care practice to enrich and transform the learning experience.
A clear overview of why and how the underpinning principles of social pedagogy can benefit both the learner and the educator is provided, and answers to current educational challenges are offered. Chapters in the book cover topics including:
supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities
working with marginalised families and communities
tackling bias in higher education
alternative approaches to education leadership
establishing relationships within an online environment
This book concludes by considering the value of social pedagogical approaches beyond the realm of education, in wider work with children and families. It discusses how this approach can build communities, offer hope and provide opportunities for all. Supplying a fresh and highly relevant perspective to help face the challenges in education today, this book will be key reading for policymakers, teachers and students in the field of education studies and beyond.
Contents
Chapter 1: The case for social pedagogy in education
Nicola Stobbs
Chapter 2: What does it mean to be a social pedagogue?
Jacqueline Hine and Amanda Sheehy
Chapter 3: Creating a nurturing environment in early childhood education and care, with a focus upon relationships, awe and wonder
Johanna Cliffe
Chapter 4: Adopting social pedagogical values to support children with SEND
Sue Baylis
Chapter 5: The potential of art to break down barriers and draw together
Kaytie Holdstock
Chapter 6: Harmony and connection: integrating social pedagogy with music education
Kate Howen
Chapter 7: Taking a social pedagogical approach to including Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in a setting
Stacey Hodgkins
Chapter 8: Creativity and the common third: approaches in education
Nicola Watson and Rosemarie Hill
Chapter 9: Managing emotions and maintaining wellbeing as an empathic social pedagogue
Angela Hodgkins and Suzanne Allies
Chapter 10: Why college-based higher education needs social pedagogy
Olivia Storey and Geoffrey Elliott
Chapter 11: A social pedagogical approach to tackling social-class bias in higher education
Raquel Labella Jara
Chapter 12: Building relationships within blended learning
Samantha Sutton-Tsang
Chapter 13: A head, heart and hands approach to collaborative mentoring
Yvonne Cashmore and Margaret Tildesley
Chapter 14: Leadership: not a role but a way of being
Shaun McInerney and Emma Laurence
Chapter 15: Accepting relationships and emotions in research
Carla Solvason
Chapter 16: The next chapter
Stuart Gallagher
