A set of pages exploring the theory and practice of helping and the process of giving support.
Introducing helping
What do we mean by helping – and what is its relationship to informal education, counselling and teaching? Explore helping relationships.
The art of helping others
The art of helping others: A set of support pages for the book by Heather Smith and Mark K. Smith plus a new discussion forum to debate issues around the book.
featured
David Brandon – homelessness, advocacy and mental health, and zen in the art of helping. We examine David Brandon’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.
Nel Noddings and the ethics of care. 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.
helping arenas
Community learning and development
Lifelong learning and adult education
Settlements and social action centres
Some key thinkers for helpers
Acknowledgement: Help wanted by Andreas Klinke Johannsen.Sourced from Flickr and reproduced here under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) licence. http://www.flickr.com/photos/andjohan/5644714850/