ABSTRACT
The difficulty in embracing the concept of relational pedagogy may be due to the fact that pedagogy itself is a difficult concept to understand and comprehend. Pedagogy is a widely used term in education in Europe and that was my own personal experience, as I was initially educated and worked in the Greek educational system. Pedagogy had a central place in my education as a nursery teacher. On the Continent, the term is used to refer to modules, whole programmes of study and even departments in education faculties. In general terms, pedagogy is understood as the art and science of educating the child and the adult alike. In English educational literature, the term pedagogy appeared mainly during the 1990s and it has been considered as being synonymous with teaching, defined as the act and performance of curricula delivery (Alexander 2000; Lewis and Norwich 2005).
