Thumbs up for Pedagogy!!

Pedagogy now means and represent so much to me now!!Before the course i associated this concept to education but education in its narrowest sense(learning a subject at school for instance) but now its more deep, complex and it is the pillar,the foundation of  care relationships( such as s.workers or pedagogue relationship with their clients/citizen- as Inge explained this last word gives the vision of rights to the ppl and i aslo think it has a new dimension when one consider the client as an individual with rights). I can really see that working with ppl demands so much pedagogical skills whereby both citizens and professional workers are in a 'learning' environment. But first things first lets start with my understanding of pedagogy-my new awareness of the subject.

Peda-gaigos meaning to bring somebody from one place to another:there is the notion of change and helping relationships that enable ppl to move, to progress and when somebody bring someone else to one place to another it also mean that the guide as well will have to move together with and also wait for clients sometimes to move forward ,go at the client's pace and also encourage him/her. The "guide" and the "follower" will need to know it eachother to progress efficiently and ultimately both would be changed from the experience( at least both would be in a different place than at the starting point)

In many parts of Europe pedagogy is a complex and holistic interactions between ppl and between man and society-quoted fromt the recent international discussion on terms and concepts of pedagogy by Jan Peeters VBJK from Ghent University in Belgium.

  It is pretty linked to philosophy draws it values form psychology, sociology and other social sciences. Pedagogues works with the principle of seeing ppl as as whole and uses his professionality and personality as tool to build interpersonal relationships to help individuals to develop, maintain, reconstruct, access various resources and aibilituis to comprehend and function better in the society. There is also the interesting concept of 'upbringing" that was unknown to me. Pedagogy is based on theories and "empirical" personal experience which are transform into knowledge for practice.

Pedagogical work transcendents teaching, learning approach, it can be working with care, health,learning,general well-being or development. It is a holistic idea including intersubjective relationship of recognition(anerkendelse), equality( no power abuse because citizen and practioner are inhabitng the same life space not existing in seperate hierarchical levels) and ethics.
Pedagogues use a lot of observation so as to create a learning environment and usually create a common third whereby an activity can be lauched for instance having pets in the club and building a little pet house together and taking care of it together with the pedagogues.There is also an importance concept of teamwork whereby a practioner can sit and discss with his or her collegues and find new ways of reflection and apply it in practice.They work with their hands,heart and head(Pestalozzi).