Providing a civic partnership opportunity for primary school children to explore maternity care and perinatal health using a social pedagogy

摘要

This paper sets out two frameworks for organising and delivering a university-based widening participation event for primary school children and their families. The first, a civic partnership, shows how midwives work collaboratively with the wider community. Advocates of community collaborations identify the influence of civic partnerships on informal learning and enlightenment. Secondly, the use of a social pedagogy to inform the approach addressed ethical considerations and the cognitive abilities of young children with pregnancy and childbirth knowledge. A review of related literature gave a broad range of interpretations for a social pedagogy. We identified a protective social pedagogy structure which situates age-related and curiosity-driven learning from the child's perspective. The application of the two frameworks shows how midwives as educators are ideally placed to facilitate maternity and perinatal health learning, in alternative populations.