{"id":195,"date":"2012-12-05T21:44:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T21:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infed.org\/mobi\/?p=195"},"modified":"2025-10-02T11:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:29:26","slug":"helping","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/welcome\/helping\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Pages exploring the theory and practice of helping<\/em><\/h2>\n<h4>Introducing helping<\/h4>\n<p>What do we mean by helping &#8211; and what is its relationship\u00a0to informal education, counselling and teaching? Explore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/helping\/helping_relationships.htm\">helping relationships<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><a name=\"art_of_helping\"><\/a>The art of helping others<\/h4>\n<p><a title=\"support for the art of helping others\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/helping\/the_art_of_helping_others.htm\"> The art of helping others<\/a>: A set of support pages for the book by Heather Smith and Mark K. Smith.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/images\/icons\/400_10_line.jpg\" alt=\"line\" width=\"400\" height=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><a name=\"featured\"><\/a>Featured<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/david_brandon_zen_helping.htm\">David Brandon &#8211; homelessness, advocacy and mental health, and zen in the art of helping<\/a>. We examine David Brandon&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/noddings.htm\">Nel Noddings and the ethics of care<\/a>. Nel Noddings is well known for her work around the ethics of caring, however, she has also added significantly to theory and practice more broadly in education and helping . Here we explore her contribution.<\/p>\n<h4><a name=\"arenas\"><\/a>Helping arenas<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/community\/index.htm\">Community learning and development<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/groupwork\/index.htm\">Groupwork<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/lifelonglearning\/index.htm\">Lifelong learning and adult education<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/research\/index.htm\">Research for practice<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/schooling\/index.htm\">Schooling<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/settlements\/index.htm\">Settlements and social action centres<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/socialpedagogy\/\">Social pedagogy<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a name=\"thinkers\"><\/a>Some key thinkers for helpers<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/bok_lying.htm\">Bok, Sissela <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/david_brandon_zen_helping.htm\">Brandon, David <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/et-brew.htm\">Brew, Josephine Macalister <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/et-buber.htm\"> Buber, Martin <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/coyle.htm\"> Coyle, Grace <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/et-dewey.htm\">Dewey, John <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/eisner.htm\"> Eisner, Elliot W. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/et-foll.htm\"> Follett, Mary Parker <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/et-freir.htm\">Freire, Paulo <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/et-froeb.htm\">Froebel, Friedrich <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/fromm.htm\"> Fromm, Erich <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/et-gand.htm\">Gandhi, M. K. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/gardner.htm\"> Gardner, Howard <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/et-illic.htm\">Illich, Ivan <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/biblio\/b-explrn.htm\"> Kolb, David <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/konopka.htm\"> Konopka, Gisela <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/et-krish.htm\">Krishnamurti, Jiddu <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/wright_mills.htm\"> Mills, C. Wright <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/neill.htm\"> Neill, A. 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