support pages for Heather Smith and Mark K. Smith's book: the art of helping others
The retreat from vocation and calling. Tony Jeffs argues that in recent years face-to-face work has been devalued and constrained; policymakers have opted for quantity over quality in terms of workers; and the need for vocation and calling has been sidelined.
Friendship, helping, and education. Today received wisdom has it
that helpers and educators should be friendly with
those they work
with, but not friends. But is this right? We examine the nature of
friendship - and ask whether its cultivation should be an aim of
educators and part of education.
Elliot Eisner, connoisseurship, criticism and the art of education. Elliot W. Eisner has deepened our appreciation of education in a number of areas. Here we examine his argument that education involves the exercise of artistry and the development of connoisseurship and criticism.
Erich Fromm: freedom and alienation, and loving and being, in education. Erich Fromm was both a practicing psychoanalyst and a committed and insightful social theorist. We explore his continuing relevance to educational practice and focus on his deeply instructive appreciation of freedom, love and human flourishing.
David Brandon - homelessness, advocacy and mental health, and zen in the art of helping. We examine David Brandon's seminal contribution to our understanding of the experience of homelessness and mental health problems, and his insights into the nature of advocacy and the helping process.
Brandon, David (1990)
Zen in the Art of Helping.
Fromm, Erich (2005) To Have or to Be, (first
published 1976).
Noddings, Nel (2002) Starting at Home. Caring and
social policy.
