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Interview

Summary/Abstract: Mette Christiansen, originally from Denmark, has been living in the US for more than 30 years, dedicating her time there to improving the situation for vulnerable people using social pedagogy, through hands-on work in residential programs, conference presentations, trainings, and teaching at the college and university level. She began her academic career at a two-year college in a human services program, State University of New York (SUNY) Dutchess, as a fieldwork supervisor and adjunct. Since 1997, she has been teaching at the State University of New York at New Paltz in the Concentration in Human Services program in the Department of Sociology. In 2003, she became the director of the program. This interview originates from when we met at the International Social Education and Social Pedagogy Online Conference: Creating Hope in Dystopia, where she talked about the history and state of social pedagogy in the US together with Daniel Schugurensky (Arizona State University) and Kiaras Gharabaghi (Ryerson University), who spoke about social pedagogy in Canada. Being a topic that seldom comes up on this side of the Atlantic, I thought it would be interesting for our readers to hear more about this.

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