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The Diverse Practice of Social Pedagogues: Case Examples From Denmark, Scotland, and Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2015

Christina Surel*
Affiliation:
ThemPra Social Pedagogy C.I.C., United Kingdom.
Sarah Douglas
Affiliation:
Sycamore Services, United Kingdom.
Andy Finley
Affiliation:
Sycamore Services, United Kingdom.
Alexandra Priver
Affiliation:
ThemPra Social Pedagogy C.I.C., United Kingdom.
*
*address for correspondence: Sylvia Holthoff, Director, ThemPra Social Pedagogy C.I.C., Ueckerstr. 12, 17373 Ueckermünde, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

Guest Editors' Note

As a holistic way of working with children and young people to develop their learning and wellbeing, their inter-and independence, social pedagogy is widely practised across many European countries. While the ways in which it is practiced will differ — depending on the cultural context and setting — there are also common threads that connect the social pedagogic traditions found in several countries. Hämäläinen (2003) suggests that ‘social pedagogy has a certain perspective of its own [which] cannot be reduced to a set of simple pedagogical methods, but should be understood as an educational orientation in which the world, people, society, social problems and social work are observed through “social pedagogical” glasses, as it were’ (p. 76).

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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