Kim Mason X2616377 K218 TMA01 How is social constructionism useful to both understanding the lives of children and young people and to working with children and young people? What is social constructionism and how is useful in understanding how the lives of children‚ young people and families are constructed? Social Constructionism is viewed as a study of social problems. Knowledge is produced through discourse‚ and allows practitioners to scrutinize and deconstruct ideas that are taken for granted
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These are the key points in Learning Guide 1: The children and young people’s workforce is large and diverse. Its composition raises some important questions about who works with children and in what sort of organisations. Policy and legislation increasingly vary across the UK as devolution becomes more firmly established. It is important to understand the context most relevant to you‚ but valuable learning can also be drawn from comparing developments in different contexts and countries. Developing
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welfare system under which all local authorities have duties and responsibilities towards children and young people within their community of care‚ which is designed in a way that advises practice changes and sets the standards of which to follow (K218‚ Learning Guide 11‚ Section 3). Not only has this laid the foundations for many of the features which can be seen in current legislation today‚ it has also formed the progress of social values and the major influence of these upon society as a whole
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discourse (what is said or written). Social constructionism gives us a theoretical tool enabling us to look at concepts such as ’childhood’ and at how these concepts inform thinking‚ shapes our institutions as well as informing policy and practice. K218‚ Learning Guide 4‚ Section 4.3) O’Dell et al‚ 2011‚ p. 4 cites in that two theories are drawled upon: social constructionism and social ecological theory. It is debated that these theories helps us to see the world a little better. The Social constructionist
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