Occupation Atlassocial pedagogue
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/fa4a3b52-990c-44eb-a912-490f5d689400
social pedagogue
Social pedagogues provide care, support, and education to children and young persons with different backgrounds or capabilities. They develop educational processes for young persons to be in charge of their own experiences, using a multi-disciplinary approach set to the learning experience. Social pedagogues contribute to the individuals' learning, welfare, and societal inclusion, and put an emphasis on building self-reliance.
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Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
SAESocial · Artistic · Enterprising — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social7.00
- A Artistic4.18
- E Enterprising3.20
- C Conventional3.08
- I Investigative2.97
- R Realistic2.51
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Self-Enrichment Teachers (25-3021.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (44)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- adolescent psychological development
- apply holistic approach within social services
- apply person-centred care
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- assess social service users' situation
- assess the development of youth
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- communicate with youth
- conduct educational activities
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- counselling methods
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- determine child welfare
- empower individuals, families and groups
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- health education
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- maintain records of work with service users
- manage social crisis
- manage stress in the work place
- pedagogy
- prepare youths for adulthood
- promote social change
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- psychological theories
- psychology
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- social development
- social justice
- social pedagogy
- social sciences
- supervision of persons
- support children's wellbeing
- support social service users to live at home
- support the positiveness of youths
- support traumatised children
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- use pedagogic strategies for creativity
Optional (16)
- apply foreign languages in social services
- assist children with special needs in education settings
- communicate about youth's well-being
- communicate by use of interpretation services
- community education
- cooperate with professionals
- disability care
- disability types
- monitor children's physical development
- plan youth activities
- social mediation
- special needs education
- support sport activities in education
- theatre pedagogy
- use learning strategies
- work for public inclusion
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 44 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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