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Chapter 11 - A Caring Relational Approach to Education

Implications for Practice and Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2023

Mariane Hedegaard
Affiliation:
University of Copenhagen
Anne Edwards
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

In this concluding chapter, we give a brief overview of the key themes in the book, emphasizing the importance of care in the relational pedagogy we have been discussing. We argue that practitioners should take children seriously by seeking their perspectives and identifying what matters for them while building common knowledge with them and working relationally to help take forward their social situations of development. But our primary purpose here is to look forward and consider the implications of the subtle skilled work we are advocating for practitioners. Care alone is insufficient. Practitioners who work with children and families need knowledge of child and adolescent development; subject matter knowledge in schools, and for other caring professionals their core professional knowledge, such as legal responsibilities for social workers; and knowledge of pedagogy. The professional interactions with children, families and other practitioners in a relational pedagogy are reciprocal, involving ongoing mutual engagement, where power differences are played down, and professional agency is crucial. Much therefore depends on how institutional leaders mediate government policies: Creating and supporting agentic responsive practitioners is a leadership responsibility. Questions of values therefore crucially underpin the ideas shared in this book.

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Taking Children and Young People Seriously
A Caring Relational Approach to Education
, pp. 262 - 270
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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