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

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 inter-professional connectedness within SLCN support networks, in particular how relational agency is inflected by affect, are offered.

KEYWORDS:

• Speech, language and communication needs
• inter-professional
• social capital
• co/productive practices
• affect
• agency

Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the contribution to collection of data of Jan Allon-Smith.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Joan Forbes http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3820-096X

Cristina McKean http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9058-9813

Additional information

Funding

This research was jointly funded through a Newcastle University Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Early Career Research Fund Award to C. McKean and an award from the North Tyneside Learning Trust (registered charity – 1143299).