TY - JOUR
T1 - Social pedagogy
T2 - Historical traditions and transnational connections
AU - Schugurensky, Daniel
AU - Silver, Michael
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - With over 150 years of history, social pedagogy is both an interdisciplinary scholarly field of inquiry and a field of practice that is situated in the intersection of three areas of human activity: education, social work and community development. Although social pedagogy has different emphases and approaches depending on particular historical and geographical contexts, a common theme is that it deals with the connections between educational and social dynamics, or put in a different way, it is concerned with the educational dimension of social issues and the social dimensions of educational issues. The first part of this paper analyzes the history of the field of social pedagogy since its origins until today, with a focus on transnational flows between Europe and the Americas. The second part of the paper discusses the main issues raised in this special issue of EPAA, and extracts the main threads and connections among the different papers included in the volume.
AB - With over 150 years of history, social pedagogy is both an interdisciplinary scholarly field of inquiry and a field of practice that is situated in the intersection of three areas of human activity: education, social work and community development. Although social pedagogy has different emphases and approaches depending on particular historical and geographical contexts, a common theme is that it deals with the connections between educational and social dynamics, or put in a different way, it is concerned with the educational dimension of social issues and the social dimensions of educational issues. The first part of this paper analyzes the history of the field of social pedagogy since its origins until today, with a focus on transnational flows between Europe and the Americas. The second part of the paper discusses the main issues raised in this special issue of EPAA, and extracts the main threads and connections among the different papers included in the volume.
KW - Community education
KW - Historical traditions
KW - Social pedagogy
KW - Transnational flows
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U2 - 10.14507/epaa.v21n35.2013
DO - 10.14507/epaa.v21n35.2013
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84877304183
SN - 1068-2341
VL - 21
JO - Education Policy Analysis Archives
JF - Education Policy Analysis Archives
ER -