Relational pedagogies

     Nohl (1957) describes the pedagogical relationship as "the loving relationship of a mature person with a 'developing' person, entered into for the sake of the child so that he can discover his own life and form" (p. 134).


 NOHL, H. (1957) Die padagogische Bewegung in Deutschland und ihre Theorie (Frankfurt). 

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