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Leadership in social work: part two

Posted by: Lyn Romeo, Posted on: 25 January 2019 - Categories: Education and training, Knowledge and skills, Our profession

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 …

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Leadership in social work: part one

Posted by: Lyn Romeo, Posted on: 24 January 2019 - Categories: Education and training, Knowledge and skills, Our profession

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, …

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Social pedagogy... social what?

Posted by: Lyn Romeo, Posted on: 19 December 2018 - Categories: Education and training, Knowledge and skills

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 …

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Tweeting is teaching

Posted by: Lyn Romeo, Posted on: 11 February 2015 - Categories: Education and training

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 …

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