• Social Pedagogy in the Nordic Countries

    Social Pedagogy in the Nordic Countries


International Journal of Social Pedagogy Special Sssue.

This International Journal of Social Pedagogy special sssue on Social Pedagogy in the Nordic Countries generally stems from Hämäläinen’s (2012) definition of two main developmental lines of social pedagogy: a line of social care and welfare activities preventing and alleviating social exclusion, and a line of social education supporting growth into membership of society. In the Nordic countries, both of these lines exist in social pedagogical discussion, research and practice. The special series aims to both discuss the existence of these lines as such and show examples of social pedagogical work on the arenas of both general and special social education. 

Publication date: From September 2018 - July 2019. 



Guest Editor

Elina NivalaDepartment of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.



Article list 


Editorial


Editorial: Special issue on social pedagogy in the Nordic countries

Elina Nivala

2019-02-08 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2018

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Special series: Social Pedagogy in the Nordic Countries

Research article


Social pedagogy-informed residential child care

Eeva Timonen-Kallio and Juha Hämäläinen

2019-01-31 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2018

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Special series: Social Pedagogy in the Nordic Countries

Inequality as a social pedagogical question

Sanna Ryynänen and Elina Nivala

2019-01-30 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2018

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Special series: Social Pedagogy in the Nordic Countries

Social pedagogical practices in Swedish welfare contexts

Elisabet Cedersund, Lisbeth Eriksson, Bibbi Ringsby Jansson and Lars A. Svensson

2019-01-30 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2018

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Special series: Social Pedagogy in the Nordic Countries

Pictorial meaning-making in a community project in Helsinki. Freirean interpretations of a dialogical process

Aino Hannula

2018-11-06 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2018 • 1–14

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Special series: Social Pedagogy in the Nordic Countries

‘Positive recognition’ as a preventive approach in child and youth welfare services

Jouni Häkli, Riikka Korkiamäki and Kirsi Pauliina Kallio

2018-09-28 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2018

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Special series: Social Pedagogy in the Nordic Countries

Social pedagogy in a human rights context: Lessons from primary schools in Iceland

Vilborg Jóhannsdóttir and Jóna G. Ingólfsdóttir

2018-09-28 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2018

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Special series: Social Pedagogy in the Nordic Countries

Fostering transformational teacher agency in Finnish teacher education

Minni Matikainen, Perttui Männistö and Aleksi Fornaciari

2018-09-28 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2018

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Special series: Social Pedagogy in the Nordic Countries

Practice paper


Harnessing horses in social pedagogy: Equine-assisted social education in a school context

Ritva Mickelsson

2019-07-16 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2019

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Special series: Social Pedagogy in the Nordic Countries