Book review : The growth of love. Keith White.

Smith, Mark (2009) Book review : The growth of love. Keith White. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 8 (1). pp. 77-78. ISSN 1478-1840

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Abstract

This is a brave book in which Keith White puts the words love and God on the centre stage. The book sets out to connect theology and child development. It also discusses insights from sociology, anthropology, philosophy and travel. Most tellingly, though, White draws on he and his wife’s lived experience of running Mill Grove, a residential child care community in London. The book is motivated by ‘the desire to understand better the lives, struggles, growth and development of particular children and families’ (p.10). This quest is grounded firmly in the day-to-day experience of caring for children. Writing from such an experiential base can appear rather quaint these days and provides a welcome antidote to policy overload and the ‘what works’ zeitgeist.

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