1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Relational Pedagogy An Invitation to a Global Conversation
The Routledge International Handbook of Relational Pedagogy provides a vision that foregrounds dialogic, nurturing, inclusive relationships underpinning children and students' wellbeing and growth, offering an alternative educational vision to the neoliberal discourse dominant in education worldwide.
With eminent contributors from across the globe, it provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art of theoretical, conceptual, empirical and practice-based tensions and debates in the field. Its insights range across the educational continuum from early childhood education and care to elementary, secondary and higher-level education in formal and informal settings. The Handbook uniquely explores and maps the terrain of pedagogical relations with theoretical, philosophical, empirical and practical perspectives across 42 articles presented in four Parts: Foundations: Philosophical and Theoretical Architectures; Contexts of Relationality from Early Childhood to Higher Education; Leadership and Organisational Transformation; and Inclusion, Justice and Cultural Responsiveness. It provides space for "the not yet seen" and serves as a valuable bridge between the practical needs of educational institutions and the theories provided by research.
This Handbook will be of interest to scholars in education, teachers, undergraduate and advanced students in teacher education, academic researchers, and educational leaders seeking to understand relational pedagogy as a key response to global challenges in education.
Table of contents
Introduction: An invitation to a global conversation
Ann-Louise Ljungblad & Alexander M. Sidorkin
Part 1: Foundations: Philosophical and Theoretical Architectures
The pedagogical relation: A perspective from Continental Pedagogy
Norm Friesen
Relational pedagogy: Weaving perspectives from Aotearoa
Tracy Dayman, Roimata Sam & Alison Mander
Relational pedagogy and otherness: A perspective from education in Spain
Eduardo S. Vila Merino & Victoria E. Álvarez Jiménez
Learning at the Student–Teacher Interface: Pedagogy and the Relational Exchange
Andrew Hickey & Stewart Riddle
Attentive involvement as an educational disposition
Lisette Bastiaansen
Guided by a beacon: advocating for ethical-existential guidance in relational pedagogy
Lotta Jons
A Relational Concept of Critical Thinking: Hannah Arendt on the Power of Judgement
Irene Haslund
Relational pedagogy in early childhood: Repositioning teachers’ interests and knowledge
Maria Birbili, Louise Gorst & Helen Hedges
Part 2: Contexts of Relationality from Early Childhood to Higher Education
Dialogic (re)conceptualisations of relational pedagogies: Bringing sensing teacher-infant bodies into view
E. Jayne White
Relational practice in Early Childhood Education and Care: The case for a Nurturing Pedagogy
Nóirín Hayes
Relational pedagogy in early childhood education and care: An overview of an evolving field
Theodora Papatheodorou
One educator’s journey towards centering love through equity and trauma-informed relational pedagogy
Amber K. Howard
Relationships, human development, and education
Robert C. Pianta
Fostering a sense of belonging in blended study programmes for early childhood teacher education students
Maria Selmer-Olsen, Gunn Anita Søraunet & Elin Børve
Finding Pockets of Care in the university: Weaving connection, collegiality, and relational pedagogies into the Academy
Catherine-Ann O’Connell
A pedagogy of vulnerability: The dynamic of relational practice in Higher Education
Kate Duffy
Part 3: Leadership and Organisational Transformation
Relational school development – Builds on and fosters trust in schools
Ulf Jederlund
Distributed leadership: Five phases of trust and vulnerability
Ann-Louise Ljungblad
The relational dimension of the school leader profession: A tactful balancing act
Ann-Louise Ljungblad
Developing competences in relational leading through the co-creation of transformative learning communities
Lone Hersted & Camilla Fikse
Developing competences in relational leading through the co-creation of transformative learning communities
Lukas Herrmann & Birgitte Lund Nielsen
Minor stories of becoming-relational-leader in kindergarten
Merete Moe, Audun Forr, Berit Flatås & Lotta Johansson
A relational view on the interactions between co-leading pedagogical leaders and the rest of the kindergarten staff
Kjartan Belseth
Teacher stress, burnout and enjoyment: A relational view
Michael J. Richardson, Stephanie A. W. Witt & Melissa Newberry
Relational Reflective Practice for education
Leah O’Toole & Claire Regan
Part 4: Inclusion, Justice, and Cultural Responsiveness
“Being in between”: Embracing complexity: rhizomatic teaching as a relational pedagogy for inclusive physical education
Corina van Doodewaard
Relational pedagogy as a polyphony of perspectives: A re-reading of a Brazilian case study through Deleuzian-Guattarian concepts
Paula Albuquerque
Can relational pedagogy be used to frame relationship-building strategies in school-based youth work? A view from Sweden
Michael Wallengren-Lynch
“I want to have a say”: Newly arrived immigrant parents’ relational experiences with Norwegian public schools
Nassira Essahli-Vik, Sultana Ali Norozi & Jostein Vik
The roadmap for change: Cultural residents teaching the teachers
Rose Amazan, Katherine Thompson, Aunty Maxine Ryan & Trent Kelly
That’s the starting point: Using youth culture to strengthen teacher-student relationships
Jason Rawls
Restorative practice as relational and community-building pedagogy: Review, theory and application
Huw Humphreys
Action Research as a relational tool: Addressing power imbalances in university-kindergarten partnerships
Paal Eckhoff Salvesen, Pål Gerhard Rystad, Merete Moe & Leah O’Toole
Part 5: Ecological and Material Entanglements
Relational resonance in the pedagogical playground: An ecological relational framework for complex educational environments
Jaap Kleinpaste & Biek Leissner
Scaffolding students’ relational agency in postdigital education: A sociomaterial perspective on teachers’ digital relational competence
Annika Wiklund-Engblom & Helena Bonnevie
Relational perspectives on school design and learning spaces
Hans Petter Ulleberg & Ellen Saur
Relational listening as ethical embodied practice
Emer Byrden
Exploring sustainability through Froebelian Ecofeminism: A relational pedagogical approach
Máire Nic an Bhaird, Laoise Ní Chléirigh & Thomas P. Curran
Aspects of aesthoecology: Ethical relationships and an emerging eco-pedagogical activism beyond the domain of the anthropocentric
Chris Turner
Social Entrepreneurship in Early Childhood Teacher Education: A relational approach to increase students' motivation
Ingunn Elder & Line-Marie Wiken Hatle
The ecologies of learning/teaching: Navigating collaborative complexities with relational pedagogy
Polina Golovátina-Mora & Monica Rocha-Bravo
AI and relational pedagogy
Alexander M. Sidorkin
Conclusion: Relational pedagogy, the birth of a field
Leah O’Toole, Gert Biesta & Merete Moe
Biography
Ann-Louise Ljungblad is Associate Professor at Malmö University, Sweden.
Merete Moe is Professor emerita of Pedagogy at Queen Maud University College, Norway.
Leah O’Toole is Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education in Maynooth University, Ireland.
Ilona Rinne is Associate Professor at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Teaching at primary and secondary school teacher education.
Alexander M. Sidorkin is a Professor of Education at Sacramento State University. He previously served as Dean and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer.
