Dublin, 11/11/14

SOCIAL PEDAGOGY

developing authentic relationshipsUnity through Relationship

ConferenceGabriel Eichsteller

gabriel@thempra.org.uk

ThemPra Social Pedagogy Community Interest Company

Eichsteller & Holthoff, 2009

The Social Pedagogy Diamond

Well-being & Happiness

Empowerment Relationships

Holistic Learning

Positive Experiences

In a Nutshell

Essentially Social Pedagogy is about

helping children unfold their potential

The Purpose of Social Pedagogy

creating learning situations …

… in the everyday

WHAT

HOW

WHY

valuespurpose

motivationconfidence

relationallyeduc

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restoratively ther

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tically

The Hundred Languages of the ChildThe childis made of one hundred.The child hasa hundred languagesa hundred handsa hundred thoughtsa hundred ways of thinkingof playing, of speaking.A hundred always a hundredways of listeningof marveling, of lovinga hundred joysfor singing and understandinga hundred worldsto discovera hundred worldsto inventa hundred worldsto dream.

Loris Malaguzzi, founder of Reggio Emilia (translated by Lella Gandini)

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

Samuel Johnson, English essayist & poet

Haltung

The 3 Ps3 P model: Professional self Personal self Private self

Basis: Professional Competence

Objectivity Subjectivity Emotional

Knowledge and insights:

Theoretical Knowledge e.g.Laws & policies

Processed experiences Self -awareness

Own experiences (more or less proccesed)

Actions characterized by:

AnalysisMethods Evaluation

Have a sense of situationEmpathy

EmotiveChance

Approach to collaboration:

Multi-disciplinary

Willingness and eagerness to co-operate

Pursuing one’s own agenda

Needs: Others Others /own Own

Children as Equals“Children don’t become human beings, they already

are. Children are not the people of tomorrow, but are

people of today.”

Janusz Korczak, Polish pedagogue and writer

“If one is truly to succeed in leading a person to a specific place, one must first and foremost take care to find him where he is and begin there.

This is the secret in the entire art of helping. Anyone who cannot do this is himself under a delusion if he thinks he is able to help someone else.

In order truly to help someone else, I must understand more than he—but certainly first and foremost understand what he understands. If I do not, then my greater understanding does not help him at all.

If I still intend to assert my greater understanding, then it is because I am vain or proud, and instead of benefiting him, I actually want to be admired by him.

But all true helping begins with a humbling:

The helper must first humble himself under the person he wants to help and thereby understand that to help is not to dominate but to serve, that to help is not to be the most dominating but the most patient, that to help is a willingness to, for the time being, put up with being in the wrong and not understanding what the other understands.”

Søren Kierkegaard, Danish social philosopher, in ”A straightforward message” (1859)

The Art of Helping