C.E. Jottings

Nurturing Wellbeing - 2 seminars from Social Pedagogy Development Network #CondEd

In a recently received notice from the Social Pedagogy Development Network: Nurturing Well-being From averting adversity, to supporting recovery from trauma, and increasing happiness, well-being plays a central role in social pedagogy across the spectrum. As a holistic and relationship-centred approach, social pedagogy aims to create a learning environment that enhances physical, emotional, social, mental and spiritual well-being. This relies on our ability to develop authentic relationships with the people we’re supporting – relationships in which we engage with head,... Read more →

The Social Pedagogy Charter - a model for Conductive Education?

Recently, I asked on CE Jottings "Is conductive education a social pedagogy?" I had been reading a description of social pedagogy and, adapting a couple of extracts to fit conductive education, thought that there might be something in this. For instance: "An action is not conductive because certain methods are used therein, but because some methods are chosen and used as a consequence of conductive thought" and this too "the question to ask is to what degree you are working... Read more →

Is Conductive Education a social pedagogy?

A bit arcane, I know. And it's a question that's been asked before. But I've today been reading on a couple of websites descriptions of conductive education and also a description of social pedagogy (downloadable here). Try this: "Despite these differences in approach, what combines all pedagogies is the way of thinking, the philosophy, the attitude with which these different methods are used - and this is what makes practice conductive: as H.... (2003) points out, 'conductive education is not... Read more →