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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.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: The case for social pedagogy in education
Nicola StobbsChapter 2: What does it mean to be a Social Pedagogue?
Jacqueline Hine and Amanda SheehyChapter 3: Creating a nurturing environment in early childhood education and care, with a focus upon relationships, awe and wonder
Johanna CliffeChapter 4: Adopting Social pedagogical values to support children with SEND
Sue BaylisChapter 5: The Potential of Art to Break Down Barriers and Draw Together
Kaytie HoldstockChapter 6: Harmony and Connection: Integrating Social Pedagogy with Music Education
Kate HowenChapter 7: Taking a social pedagogical approach to including Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in a setting
Stacey HodgkinsChapter 8: Creativity and the Common Third: approaches in education
Nicola Watson and Rosemarie HillChapter 9: Managing emotions and maintaining wellbeing as an empathic social pedagogue
Angela Hodgkins and Suzanne AlliesChapter 10: Why College Based Higher Education needs Social Pedagogy
Olivia Storey and Geoffrey ElliottChapter 11: A Social Pedagogical approach to tackling social-class bias in Higher Education
Raquel Labella JaraChapter 12: Building Relationships within Blended Learning
Samantha Sutton-TsangChapter 13: A Head, Heart and Hands approach to Collaborative Mentoring
Yvonne Cashmore and Margaret TildesleyChapter 14: Leadership: not a role but a way of being
Shaun McInerney and Emma LaurenceChapter 15: Accepting relationships and emotions in research
Carla SolvasonChapter 16: Conclusion: The Next Chapter
Stuart Gallagher
About the author
Carla Solvason,
Geoffrey Elliott and
Nicola Stobbs are all based at the University of Worcester. They have always had an interest in more human-centred approaches to education, illustrated by Carla and Geoffrey publishing
Ethics in Education in 2023. Just prior to this, Nicola had embedded a Social Pedagogical approach within the BA Early Childhood in Society course that she led, and they established a Social Pedagogy Research Group at the university. This group has grown from strength to strength, and their seminal publication,
A human approach to restructuring the education system: why schools in England need Social Pedagogy, published in the International Journal of Social Pedagogy, has been read by thousands of people keen to see educational change.
