ABSTRACT
Pedagogy is an evolving concept to which a number of interested fields of educational work have contributed or laid claim to. More recently, pedagogy has been subject to renewed interest in continental Europe where the twin concepts of social pedagogy and relational pedagogy have evolved. The former, social pedagogy, has emerged in the fields of social work and youth work as an alternative to a school-based pedagogy that instead focuses on more holistic and group-centred approaches to education. The latter, relational pedagogy, places particular emphasis on the value of student knowledge and experience while promoting an orientation to knowledge and learning processes based on constructivism. Social pedagogy and relational pedagogy have offered further reorientations to the concept, notably in the province of youth work and social work as a means of more effectively addressing the integration of the intrapersonal, interpersonal and the communal, while actively promoting learner agency and shared experience.
