scholarly journals Social Pedagogy — A New, Familiar Tradition? Some Thoughts on the Special Issue

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 173-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Holthoff ◽  
Gabriel Eichsteller
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Pedagogy

Socio-pedagogical knowledge expertise across the social care sectors in Northern Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Irena Dychawy Rosner
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
The Body ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Cooperative Process

A major challenge in contemporary welfare societies is the delivery of services affirming people’s expectations for their life standard, health and social care services. For decades, there has been a search to understand new ways of conceptualising social pedagogy as a field of practice, as a theory, and as a programme design and implementation. Despite the growing body of literature on social pedagogy, to date, little has been written on the subject of the unique complexities of social pedagogy knowledge expertise when bridging the supporting relationships between an individual and the social dimensions in his/her world. Based on research conducted in Northern Europe, particularly focusing on Denmark and Sweden, the aim of this special issue of International Journal of Papers of Social Pedagogy (PSP) on Contemporary Issues in Social Pedagogy in Northern Europe is to convey the central importance of social pedagogy for the study of vitality and diversity behind social pedagogy thought. The presented research projects in this special issue are, in their foundation, associated with a constructivist approach that views the body of knowledge development as an active and cooperative process of knowledge construction and its application in social pedagogy discipline. This article intends to provide a general perspective concerning the presence of various knowledge forms according to the search for, and implementation of, thinking and acting in a social pedagogy inspired way, and working under various conditions.

scholarly journals Editorial: Special issue on social pedagogy in the Nordic countries

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elina Nivala
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Social Education ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
Editorial Special Issue ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Pedagogical Discussion

This International Journal of Social Pedagogy special issue on Social Pedagogy in the Nordic Countries generally stems from Hämäläinen’s (2012) definition of two main developmental lines of social pedagogy: a line of social care and welfare activities preventing and alleviating social exclusion, and a line of social education supporting growth into membership of society. In the Nordic countries, both of these lines exist in social pedagogical discussion, research and practice. The special issue aims to both discuss the existence of these lines as such and show examples of social pedagogical work in the arenas of both general and special social education.

scholarly journals A new framework for creativity in social pedagogy

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kieron Hatton
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Explanatory Framework ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
New Framework

One of the challenges facing social pedagogy is to identify how creativity can be incorporated not only into social pedagogic practice but also into a conceptual approach which integrates theories of creativity, inclusion and participation into a wider explanatory framework. This article seeks to build on the insights drawn from Danish and German social pedagogy in a way which articulates a new way of developing theory and practice. It draws on a range of articles in the special issue to critique the meaning of creativity, showing the complexity of a matter which can be utilised by neo-liberal and radical commentators. It rejects the former approach and suggests that our understanding of creativity needs to be informed with radical conceptions drawing on inclusion, participation, imaginative space and creative and political imagination. It seeks to integrate these insights into wider debates around intersectionality, critical race theory, gender and social activism. It concludes by looking at questions social pedagogy should consider as we seek to develop our theory and practice.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
STÉPHANIE CASSILDE ◽  
DARRICK SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
Language Discourse

This is an introductory piece that sets up the scene for a special issue of Society Register dedicated to Language, Discourse and Society. It aims to briefly discuss the context, the aims of the issue and the content of accepted articles. The articles included in this issue were first presented at the ISA RC 25 Mid-term Conference in Warsaw. The conference took place at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in September 2019 with the support of Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Polish Commission for UNESCO, ISA RC 25, ISA RC 32 and the UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair in Social Pedagogy.

scholarly journals Social pedagogy: historical traditions and transnational connections

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Schugurensky ◽  
Michael Silver
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Transnational Connections ◽  
History Of ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

With over 150 years of history, social pedagogy is both an interdisciplinary scholarly field of inquiry and a field of practice that is situated in the intersection of three areas of human activity: education, social work and community development. Although social pedagogy has different emphases and approaches depending on particular historical and geographical contexts, a common theme is that it deals with the connections between educational and social dynamics, or put in a different way, it is concerned with the educational dimension of social issues and the social dimensions of educational issues. The first part of this paper analyzes the history of the field of social pedagogy since its origins until today, with a focus on transnational flows between Europe and the Americas. The second part of the paper discusses the main issues raised in this special issue of EPAA, and extracts the main threads and connections among the different papers included in the volume.

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