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Jean-Jacques Rousseau on nature, wholeness and education

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778) was born in Geneva (June 28) but became famous as a ‘French’ political philosopher and educationalist. Rousseau was brought up first … See more

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Helping relationships – principles, theory and practice

WEBThe first relates to those they are helping to manage specific problems. It is to ‘help clients manage their problems in living more effectively and develop unused or …

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Happiness and education – theory, practice and possibility

WEBIQ. In self-rated studies IQ is said to be only weakly correlated with happiness in terms of subjective feelings of happiness. education. Education appears to have only a small …

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What is community

WEBIt is the nature of the relationships between people and the social networks of which they are a part that is often seen as one of the more significant aspects of …

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Ivan Illich: deschooling, conviviality and lifelong learning

WEBKnown for his critique of modernization and the corrupting impact of institutions, Ivan Illich’s concern with deschooling, learning webs and the disabling effect …

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What is community development

WEBCommunity development was seen as emphasizing self-help, mutual support, the building up of neighbourhood integration, the development of …

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What is informal education

WEBInformal education can be all of these things. However, here we focus on informal education as a spontaneous process of helping people to learn. It works …

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Friendship theory: some philosophical and sociological themes

WEBFriendship, in this sense, involves sharing in a common project: to create and sustain the life of a community, ‘a sharing incorporated in the immediacy of an …

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Charlotte Mason: education, atmosphere, habit and living ideas

WEBPresentation of Living Ideas. Charlotte Mason’s article #8 is: “In the saying that EDUCATION IS A LIFE, the need of intellectual and moral as well as of physical …

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What is group work

WEBGroup work can emphasize ‘action and influence as well as reaction and adaption’ ( op. cit. ). Thus, Allan Brown argues: … group work provides a context in …

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Luther Halsey Gulick: recreation, physical education and the YMCA

WEBinfed.org January 14, 2013January 14, 2013. Luther Halsey Gulick physical education and the YMCA. Luther Halsey Gulick (1865-1918) was an expert and prolific writer on …

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The impact of austerity on schools and children’s education

WEBIn conclusion – austerity and children’s well-being. Jonathan Bradshaw and Gillian Main (2014) have argued that, ‘The burden of austerity has fallen particularly …

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Community participation, community development and non …

WEBOne United Nations document (1981: 5) defined community participation as: The creation of opportunities to enable all members of a community to actively …

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forming, storming norming and performing in groups

WEBCurrently Bruce W. Tuckman directs the Academic Learning Lab at Ohio State University (from 1998). Previously he had been a Professor of Educational …

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informal, non-formal and formal education

WEBWhether we are identified as a formal or informal educator we will use a mix of the formal and informal. What sets the two apart is the relative emphasis placed on …

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Robert Putnam, social capital and civic community – infed.org:

WEBLife. Born and raised in Port Clinton, Ohio, Robert Putnam is one of a long series of writers on community and civic participation that comes from a small town ( …

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Octavia Hill, housing and social reform – infed.org:

WEBIn a revealing passage in Octavia Hill’s 1896 Letter to Fellow Workers, we can see how an interest in open space and social activity grew from or was associated with, …

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Saul Alinsky, community organizing and rules for radicals

WEBSaul Alinsky’s work is an important reference point for thinking about community organizing and community development. His books Reveille for Radicals …

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playwork – infed.org:

WEBThis article by Octavia Hill, included in Homes of the London Poor (1883), outlines her case for the need for all people to be able to access space: places to sit in, places to play in, …

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Problematizing every child matters – infed.org:

WEBProblematizing every child matters. Every Child Matters was an English government paper that grew into a wide-ranging and influential strategy for work with …

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