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Making meaningful connections: using insights from social pedagogy in statutory child and family social work practice

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posted on 2023-06-09, 02:35 authored by Gillian RuchGillian Ruch, Karen Winter, Viv Cree, Sophie Hallett, Mark Hadfield
Reports into incidents of child death and serious injury have highlighted consistently concern about the capacity of social workers to communicate skilfully with children. Drawing on data collected as part of an Economic and Social Research Council funded UK-wide research project exploring social workers' communicative practices with children, this paper explores how approaches informed by social pedagogy can assist social workers in connecting and communicating with with children. The qualitative research included data generated from 82 observations of social workers' everyday encounters with children. Social pedagogical concepts of ‘haltung’ (attitude), ‘head, heart and hands’ and ‘the common third’ are outlined as potentially helpful approaches for facilitating the intimacies of inter-personal connections and enhancing social workers' capacity to establish and sustain meaningful communication and relationships with children in the face of austere social, political and organisational contexts.

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Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Journal

Child and Family Social Work

ISSN

1356-7500

Publisher

Wiley

Issue

2

Volume

22

Page range

1015-1023

Department affiliated with

  • Social Work and Social Care Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-08-18

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-11-07

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-08-18

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