Children and Young People's Spaces: Developing Practice

ISBN-13: 9780230280090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 240 str.

Pam Foley;Stephen Leverett

Opis

This reader takes debates about children's services forward by drawing on ideas based in social pedagogy and arguing that the concept of 'space' is crucial to relationships and practices with children and young people. It will stimulate students to question and rethink, and practitioners to innovate and challenge mainstream thinking.

Spis treści

Introduction; P.Foley  & S.Leverett Children's Spaces; S.Leverett Young People's Spaces; P.Hopkins Spaces-in-the-making, Childhoods-on-the-move; J.Horton, P.Kraftl & F.Tucker Researching Children's and Young People's Perspectives Places and Belonging; V.Morrow Play in an Adult World: Designing Spaces with Children and Young People; M.Dudek Democratic Spaces; P.Foley Out of the Way: Children, Young People and Outdoor Spaces; S.Elsley Growing Up: Moving through Time, Place and Space from Babyhood to Adolescence; L.Arai Children's Associative Spaces and Social Pedagogy; P.Petrie Young Europeans; S.G.Lund Spaces for Care and Learning: a Social Pedagogical Approach; L.O'Dell Reflective Spaces; S.Leverett & A.Rixon

O autorze

PAM FOLEY is a Senior Lecturer in Children and Families at Faculty of Health and Social Care, The Open University, UK. Her research interests include social policy affecting children and young people and children's agency. She has a practice background in women's and children's health. Her previous publications include Children in Society (co-edited with J. Roche and S. Tucker S, Palgrave Macmillan 2000) Connecting with children (co-edited with S. Leverett) Promoting children's wellbeing (co-edited with J. Collins) and Changing Children's Services (co-edited with A. Rixon) 

STEPHEN LEVERETT is a Lecturer in Children and Young People at Faculty of Health and Social Care, The Open University, UK. His practice background is in social care and social work in both the statutory and voluntary sector. His publications include Connecting with children (co-edited with Pam Foley).

 

Blurb

Whether in their homes, schools, streets, parks, in children's centres or cyberspace, children and young people live their lives in spaces which impact on their language and concepts, and on their social worlds and relationships. This important and innovative text provides a new framework for thinking about how relationships are developed with children and young people in the spaces they inhabit.

Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, it analyses how spaces are negotiated, produced and experienced by children and young people. It offers clear guidance on how practitioners can use spaces productively to form and maintain working relationships with children and young people. In particular the book:

? assesses how places and spaces influence and are influenced by
children and young people
? situates the development of work with children and young people
within the thinking and values associated with social pedagogy, an
approach to practice favoured in Continental Europe and attracting
much interest in the UK
? advocates democratic practice and includes methods for participatory
practice-led research.

An illuminating anthology of readings with a truly multidisciplinary and holistic approach, this is an essential text for students and practitioners working or intending to work with children, young people and their families. It also makes insightful reading for those with broader theoretical interests in social science, psychology and human geography.