Co/productive practitioner relations for children with SLCN: an affect inflected agentic frame

Citation

Forbes J, McCartney E, McKean C, Laing K, Cockerill M & Law J (2019) Co/productive practitioner relations for children with SLCN: an affect inflected agentic frame. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 40 (6), pp. 859-872. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2018.1451303

Abstract
This paper examines how school-based practitioners supporting children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) use particular social capital relations. Social capital theory together with selected ‘Productive Pedagogies’ items, are applied to re-frame and understand the co/production of support for such children. Empirical data from the ‘Language for All’ study, which investigates SLCN provision in schools in England, are analysed to understand support network social capital. Novel insights on the types and purposes of interprofessional connectedness within SLCN support networks, in particular how relational agency is inflected by affect, are offered.

Keywords
speech, language and communication needs; interprofessional; social capital; co/productive practices; affect; agency

Journal
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Volume 40, Issue 6

People

Professor Joan Forbes

Honorary Professor, Education

Professor Elspeth McCartney

Honorary Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences