introducing social pedagogy
While social pedagogy has been a key
organizing idea in many European countries, it has only recently become a focus
for exploration in English-speaking countries. It is often used to embrace the
activities of youth workers, residential or day care workers (with children or
adults), and play and occupational therapists. Social pedagogy can also be used
to describe those concerned with community learning. It overlaps considerably
with the notion of informal education.
As a practice social pedagogy tends looks to groupwork; association,
relationship and community; and to holistic educational processes. It
depends very heavily on the character and integrity of the educator and their
ability to reflect-in- and -on-action.
For an overview of developments in theory and practice:
social pedagogy.
some key social pedagogy arenas
Community learning and development
Groupwork
Playwork (in preparation)
Research for practice
Youth work
some key ideas for social pedagogy
action research
andragogy
animation
association
authenticity
civic
community
civil society
colonialism
community
community education
community learning
community of practice
community work
dialogue and conversation
conscientization
democracy, education
for
evaluation
experiential learning
facilitation
globalization
defining
globalization
globalization and the incorporation of education
groupwork
happiness
helping
holistic education
hope
informal learning
learning society
learning theory
networks -
learning
non-formal
education
non-formal and informal education
pedagogy
popular education
post-modernism/post
modernity
power
praxis
'race',
difference and lifelong learning
reflection
relationship
self-direction
selfhood
social action
social
capital
social exclusion,
'joined-up' thinking and individualization
social group work
theories of action
vocation
some key thinkers for social pedagogy
Baden Powell, Robert
Brew, Josephine Macalister
Bruner, Jerome C.
Buber, Martin
Caldwell Cook, Henry
Carpenter, Mary
Coyle, Grace
Dewey, John
Eisner, Elliot W.
Follett, Mary Parker
Freire, Paulo
Froebel, Friedrich
Fromm, Erich
Gardner, Howard
Grundtvig, N. F. S.
Gulick,
Luther
Hahn, Kurt
hooks, bell
Illich, Ivan
Knowles, Malcolm
Kolb, David
Konopka, Gisela
Krishnamurti, Jiddu
Lane, Homer
Lindeman, Eduard
Mason, Charlotte
Owen, Robert
Milson, Fred
Montessori, Maria
More, Hannah
Morris, Henry
Neill, A. S.
Noddings, Nel
Owen, Robert
Palmer, Parker J.
Pestalozzi, Johann H.
Putnam, Robert. D.
Rogers, Carl
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Ruskin, John
Schon (Schön),
Donald
Tagore,
Rabindranath
Tash, Joan
Tuckman,
Bruce W.
Whitehouse, John Howard
(in preparation)
Wilson, Gertrude
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Yeaxlee, Basil
