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“Were You a Monster Today?” Making Assessments with Families: Thoughts and Practices

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Abstract

Assessing family care work is an extremely complex task, full of risks (because it concerns people’s life). It requires sensitivity, great self-awareness and awareness of one’s own prejudices and of one’s own idea of family. In order to make an assessment professionals must have a curious attitude, capable of constantly seeking connections between interacting subjects, and these subjects include the observer him/herself, his/her thoughts and epistemology. This paper presents the reflections emerging from a high level inservice training course aimed at care and education professionals, based on narrative and reflective methodologies.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)67-79
Number of pages13
JournalEncyclopaideia
Volume23
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Keywords

  • Child and YoComplexity and Curiosity in Relational Child Care
  • Child and Youth Care
  • Risks of Assessment
  • Social Pedagogy

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