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; Lead