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Abstract
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 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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1015 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Child and Family Social Work |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 07 Nov 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Early online date - 07 Nov 2016 |
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R1354SWK: Communicating with children in child and family social work
18/12/2013 → 15/07/2015
Project: Research
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Invited speaker - WithScotland - Communicating with children
Karen Winter (Invited speaker)
27 Apr 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Invited talk at the launch of ESRC project Talking and Listening to Children (TLC) online resource.
Karen Winter (Speaker)
08 Nov 2016Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar