White, Keith J.;
(2016)
The growth of love.
International Journal of Social Pedagogy
, 15
(3)
pp. 22-33.
10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2017.03.
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Abstract
This article explores how and why child care theory and practice has been separated from the idea and concept of love since Dr John Bowlby used the word in his book, Child Care and the Growth of Love (1953). The author attempted to reconnect child care theory and love in his book, The Growth of Love (2008) the title of which was deliberately chosen to reflect the debt owed to John Bowlby, and his son, Sir Richard Bowlby contributed the Foreword. Some of the challenges and implications of this approach are described, before reference to the writings and work of others that he discovered in the process. Three mentioned are Janusz Korczak, Paulo Friere and Friedrich Froebel. Recent research on cognitive development creates space for thinking about love, for example Sue Gerhardt, Why Love Matters (2004). The article concludes with reference to children in hospital and love in religious traditions, with a final mention of how Johannes Brahms saw love as the key to all of his music.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The growth of love |
| Open access status: | An open access publication |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2017.03 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2017.03 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License |
| Keywords: | Love, child development, education, philosophy of history |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1561400 |
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