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      Towards recognising practitioners working in out-of-home care as experts in everyday life: A conceptual critique

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      International Journal of Social Pedagogy
      UCL Press
      foster care, residential care, expertise, everyday life, practice

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          This conceptual critique elaborates on the phrase ‘experts in everyday life’, which the author first used in 2015 in connection with recognising the contribution of foster carers and residential care workers to the education of children in out-of-home care (OHC). The article examines the case for greater recognition of the children’s workforce in OHC, and situates the concept of ‘expertise’ in the rise of recognition of children’s status as competent social actors, as well as in professionalisation debates. The article examines two examples, drawing on the author’s prior research in residential care and foster care, of expertise in everyday life in OHC. It concludes that, viewed from a social pedagogical perspective, expertise in everyday life refers to the complex milieu, or environment, in which the activity is taking place, as well as the relational encounters and activities themselves. It refers to the capacity for supporting young people in the mundaneness and predictability of everyday events and routines. Recognition of practitioners as experts in everyday life is not a substitute for changes to the structural conditions of employment but is a first step towards it.

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                Author and article information

                Journal
                IJSP
                International Journal of Social Pedagogy
                UCL Press
                2051-5804
                16 November 2020
                : 9
                : 1
                : 19
                Affiliations
                Co-director, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Department of Social Sciences, Institute of Education, UCL, UK; c.cameron@ 123456ucl.ac.uk
                Article
                IJSP-9-19
                10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2020.v9.x.019
                2546c703-83ec-477d-bf72-b257cc07af97
                © 2020, Claire Cameron.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2020.v9.x.019.

                History
                : 03 March 2020
                : 01 October 2020
                Page count
                Pages: 14
                Categories
                Conceptual Critique
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                Cameron, C. (2020). Towards recognising practitioners working in out-of-home care as experts in everyday life: A conceptual critique. International Journal of Social Pedagogy, 9( 1): 19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2020.v9.x.019.

                Sociology,Education,Social policy & Welfare,General social science,General behavioral science,Family & Child studies
                practice,residential care,everyday life,foster care,expertise

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