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Application in education

Social pedagogy has proven its efficiency with the application in practical professions, like nursing, where the student can observe a trained professional in the working settings, and they can learn about nursing throughout all its aspects: interactions, attitudes, co-working skills and the nursing job itself. Students who have taken part in social learning state that they increased their nursing skills, and that it could only be possible because of the good learning environment, a good mentor, and a student who is assertive enough. It means that social learning can be achieved with a good mentor, but one need to be a good listener too.

Cyberbullying being an issue in schools, social pedagogy can be a solution to decrease this trend. Indeed, as the bullied pupil can build a relationship with a particular mentor or a role model, which would empower the student to deal with issues such as cyberbullying This can work both on the victim and the bully, since both may lack confidence,and affection. Using social pedagogy instead of punishments and reactive actions is also a way to derive from the traditional model of raising children, and teaching, which relies on punishments and rewards.

Stages and field experiences are a good way to show how social pedagogy and social learning contribute to ones education. Indeed, field experiences are part of a students life in their route to their teaching degree. Field experiences are based on the social learning theory, because a student follows a teacher for some amount of days, and, at first, they look at the cooperating teacher, and take notes about his teaching. The second part of the field experience is actually teaching, and receiving feedback from that model that the student has looked at. The student tries as much as they can to imitate what they have learned by observing their cooperating teacher, and a teaching baccalaureate would not be complete without field experiences.

Parent education is also based on social learning. From their birth, children look at their parents and try to model what they do, how they talk, and what they think. Of course, a child’s environment is much bigger than only their familiar environment, but it is an important part. A study was made on parenting and social learning, where parents had to attend classes what would teach them social learning principles to improve their children’s behaviour. The classes taught the parents how to record objectively their children’s behaviour, and to deal with them by teaching the correct behaviour, not by punishing the wrong one. A significant number of parents improve their children behaviour by the end of the study.