News Views
Including training for social educators / social pedagogues / residential care staff, tombstoning, Ofsted, shaken babies, approved school scandals, therapeutic music, Siblings Together, educational apps, naming ceremonies, and ‘research’
Risk-taking
A Fieldtrip to Freiburg
A reflective diary of a visit to learn about social pedagogy in practice
Towards a Pedagogic Conceptualisation of Risk
How children need to take risks to be safe
In Praise of Facebook
Restoring broken relationships
Reflections of a Has-Been: 2 : A Miscellany of Staffing Matters
Training, pay, working hours, risk and health and safety all affect good residential care.
Discipline
Described by the author as the disjointed rantings of a grumpy old git
News Views
A mixture of news items, events, comments and whimsies, including creature discomforts, childminding registration charges, listening, a contentious Bill, school size, data base size, and risk-taking. Creature Discomforts If there are Oscars to be awarded to charity advertising, one needs to go to Leonard Cheshire Disability for their partnership with Aardman animations in producing the … Read more
Playing in Safety
Then A hundred years ago, when I was very young, my Mother always said the same things when I went out to play, “Don’t go anywhere other than where you said you are going”; “Don’t do anything you shouldn’t” and “Enjoy yourself”, in that order. I knew what time to come back. I knew what … Read more