Sage Publications Social Pedagogy and Social Work

Are you looking to understand more about social pedagogy? Wanting to see how you can incorporate these approaches into your practice? Ali Gardner and Lowis Charfe introduce you to this exciting new approach to UK social work practice that has been shaping care services in Europe for decades. It is a holistic approach that requires an absolute commitment to employing your head, heart, and hand in creatively working alongside individuals to support the process of change at an individual, communal, and societal level. The authors outline the key concepts, philosophy, and history of social pedagogy to ground you in the theory Exercises help you to reflect on how to incorporate this new philosophy into your work Practical examples demonstrate how you can apply key principles to your own practice After reading this book you will be able to confidently engage with social work that emphasises people rather than processes at the heart of intervention. Review Outstanding. The only text to explore the theory, principles and practice of Social Pedagogy and modern day Social Work. An engaging and inspiring read for students, practitioners and educators, bringing together decades of research that will shape future social work practice and leave readers thinking, "I want to do this!" -- Jon Old This is, in my opinion, a good book. The pursued objectives are clear and viable, and the content is well structured from a pedagogical point of view. It also strikes the right balance between theory and practice, given that the theoretical perspectives it provides are linked continuously throughout the text with the daily work of professionals in practice. In this sense, one might say that it constitutes a manual of social pedagogy for social workers. -- Xavier Ucar About the Author Lowis is a Senior Lecturer at the University of  Central Lancashire (UCLan), where she teaches Social Work, Social Policy and Community Care programmes. Lowis′ previous employment background has mainly been located within working with children and young people in a social work capacity. Lowis has an interest in working with young people leaving care and especially within the youth justice system, and in developing various projects for young people. Her interest in social work training led her into teaching where she taught at the UCLan Burnley Campus before moving to the main campus in Preston.Ali is a Senior Lecturer at the University of  Central Lancashire (UCLan), where she teaches on a number of programmes including social work and social pedagogy. Ali has spent a number of years working with people with learning disabilities within practice, policy, research and advocacy. She has been involved with a partnership project with the Department of Health, Skills for Care (North West) and Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)  to design and support the development of personalisation teaching resources for social work programmes in the Higher Education Sector.