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      Human encounters: The core of everyday care practice

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          Although there is increasing recognition within health and social care policy that relationships are central within ‘people work’, little attention is given to exploring the nature and purpose of these within everyday care practice. Social pedagogues appreciate that human relationships, in all their complexity, are intrinsically valuable and, therefore, central to everyday care practice. This article explores human encounters as the foundation of relational practice, and we discuss how the space for true encounter incorporates spiritual care and a movement from dependence to interdependence. It proposes that everyday care practice is best understood as a series of human encounters that requires courage to embrace the complexity and uncertainty of encountering the essential humanity of those we care for. In order to do so, practitioners need to develop moral integrity, enabling them to navigate situations of care without fixed recipes. Drawing on perspectives from care ethics and the Nordic care tradition, this article contextualises the discussion within the authors’ extensive care practice experience and, in focusing on human encounters as the basis of relational care, presents implications for practitioners in diverse everyday care contexts.

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                Journal
                IJSP
                International Journal of Social Pedagogy
                UCL Press
                2051-5804
                07 September 2020
                : 9
                : 1
                : 15
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing, Abertay University, School of Applied Sciences, Bell Street, Dundee DD1 1HG, UK
                [2 ]Independent Scholar, Aberdeen, UK
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                IJSP-9-15
                10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2020.v9.x.015
                2e4f7649-1132-4e49-a6ef-f8b5fb05c2c0
                © 2020, Sebastian Monteux and Angelika Monteux.

                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.015.

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                : 13 January 2020
                : 06 August 2020
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                Pages: 13
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                Monteux, S., & Monteux, A. (2020). Human encounters: The core of everyday care practice. International Journal of Social Pedagogy, 9(1): 15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2020.v9.x.015.

                Sociology,Education,Social policy & Welfare,General social science,General behavioral science,Family & Child studies
                relationship-based practice,love,encounter,spiritual care,everyday care,social pedagogy

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