Giving Practitioners a Voice in Child Care and Social Education

by Vic Citarella

The ICSE is open for business.

Training of Child Welfare Workers in Universities of Applied Sciences in Finland

by Mervi Nyman

An explanation of the systems, the training, the competencies - and some of the problems

News Views

Including Haiti, professionalism, social pedagogy, well-being, Siblings Together and the Old Vic, grandparents’ rights, misbehaviour and classical music, reading, smacking …

Social Pedagogy and Therapeutic Education

by Stuart Hannah

Are the two approaches compatible?

The Implementation of Social Pedagogy from the Perspectives of Practitioners

by Sylvia Holthoff and Gabriel Eichsteller

A collection of reflections

Social Pedagogy Development Network - Impressions of Launch Day

by Gabriel Eichsteller & Sylvia Holthoff

News Views

Including the Webmag’s tenth anniversary, institutional abuse of children in Ireland, Ofsted, child care ethics, the recession, social pedagogy, childminder …

Telling the World about Social Pedagogy

by Benny Andersen, President of AIEJI

Pass on the Copenhagen Declaration on Worldwide Social Pedagogy Day.

News Views

Including ASPECT and social pedagogy, NCMA, nursery provision in Scotland, Voice and mobile phones, and running away.

Editorial: Social Pedagogy- Panacea, Practical Programme or Professional Trompe l’Oeil?

Social Pedagogy and Government Policy in England

by John Chowcat

How policy and pilots are proceeding

Introducing Social Pedagogy

by Abby Ladbrooke

Adapting the UK to SP and SP to the UK

The Social Pedagogy Pilot Programme 2008 - 2011 Progress to Date

by Claire Cameron

Some Basic Concepts 1: The 3 Ps

by Gabriel Eichsteller

The professional, personal, and private pedagogue

Some Basic Concepts 2: The Common Third

by Gabriel Eichsteller

How activities establish the right values and offer a means of relating

Some Basic Concepts 3: Zone of Proximal Development

by Gabriel Eichsteller

How children can be helped to learn through social pedagogy

Towards a Pedagogic Conceptualisation of Risk

by Gabriel Eichsteller and Sylvia Holthoff

How children need to take risks to be safe

Out-of-Home Care: Bringing up Children in a Professional Way

by Bettina Terp

Looking on the social pedagogy profession from a Viennese point of view

Social Pedagogy and UK Traditions of Social Work

by Gabriel Eichsteller

Key aspects of social pedagogy practice

Social Pedagogy: the Impact of Rousseau

by Valerie Jackson

How Rousseau, Plowden et al. influenced the teaching milieu and methods

What’s So New about Social Pedagogy?

by Dr Keith J. White

It’s been around for years at Mill Grove.

ThemPra

A company set up to develop social pedagogy in the UK

In Praise of Emancipatory Youth Work

by Tony Taylor

A radical campaign to free up youth work

News Views

Including social pedagogy, respite care and work with children – the basic model

‘The Loveliest Girl in the World’ by Miina Savolainen

Book Review by David Lane

How photography can empower children in residential care

Social Pedagogy - in the UK, and in Slovenia

Announcing next month’s theme, and plugging Social Na Pedagogika

Residential Child Care, the Under-valued, Unacknowledged and Untrained Profession

by Charles Sharpe

The Social Educator in a Globalised World: AIEJI World Congress, Copenhagen, 2009

by Brian Paget

The Social Educator in a Globalised World

A major Congress for anyone interested in social pedagogy / social education

The Ideology of Residential Care and Fostering

by Dr Keith J. White

The damage of failing to reframe

News Views

Including games, Moon Sand, play, child poverty, A Levels, YoungMinds, island communities and pedagogy in Slovenia .

New Challenges and Opportunities for Children’s Services Professionals

by John Chowcat, General Secretary, Aspect - Association of Professionals in Education and Children's Trusts

How Aspect is helping to shape the future of the professions which work with children

Reflections of a Has-Been: 2 : A Miscellany of Staffing Matters

by Roy Grimwood

Training, pay, working hours, risk and health and safety all affect good residential care.

The Role of the Social Pedagogue

by Professor Ewan Anderson

The concept of pedagogy has a long history, but it is now finding its time.

The Professional Competences of Social Educators : A Conceptual Framework

by AIEJI

The training needs, competences and ethical guidelines for social educators

Social Pedagogy UK - a virtual world meeting point…

by Abby Ladbrooke

Children Webmag’s Campaigns - Past and Future

by David Lane

The ideas that motivate the Webmag

Introducing Social Pedagogy into Residential Child Care in England

A description of an important project with pointers for the future

News Views

Words, Ideas and Realities

by David Lane

Learning from Europe

Learning from History : Lesson 5 :Realistic Expectations

by David Lane & Chris Durkin

News Views

Creating a Profession