Social pedagogy is based on humanistic values and is primarily concerned with well-being, learning and growth and seeks to recognise and promote each individual’s potential. In part one of this two part blog, UCLan’s Ali Gardner explored the concept in the …
Before Christmas, I was very pleased to post a guest blog from Ali Gardiner, senior lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, on a fascinating methodology of interest to our social work profession: social pedagogy. If you haven’t read it, …
I was delighted to be invited to a Parliamentary reception at the House of Commons recently on social pedagogy. If you’re wondering what that is – read on! There were quite a few social workers there and I was inspired …
There remains a perception in some quarters that twitter and other forms of social media exist mainly to celebrate the trivial and elevate the irrelevant – reductive debasers of meaningful conversations. But this simply isn’t true and certainly not for …