La transmission des savoirs professionnels à la Protection Judiciaire de la Jeunesse

Analyzing the moment when Directors at the Judicial Protection of Youth (PJJ) take up their post allows us to track down two major sources of transmission, to which competing orders of legitimacy correspond: the professional group understood in a broad sense (professional legitimacy) and the institu...

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Main Authors: Élisabeth Dugué, Guillaume Malochet
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: ADR Temporalités 2006-12-01
Series:Temporalités
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/temporalites/164
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Summary:Analyzing the moment when Directors at the Judicial Protection of Youth (PJJ) take up their post allows us to track down two major sources of transmission, to which competing orders of legitimacy correspond: the professional group understood in a broad sense (professional legitimacy) and the institution (political legitimacy). Though the modalities of transmission were still intertwined not so long ago, they coexist nowadays without acknowledging each other. The stake appears clearly to the professionals of the PJJ - and singularly to the managers : to be able to negotiate a posture adequate to the constraints of the situation. This implies difficulties mainly due to the plurality of temporalities that managers have to face. With regard to their teams and their peers, the situation corresponds to a classical process of professional socialization. On the other hand, the institutional crisis presently assailing the PJJ imposes political changes on the managers without the slightest possibility for them to have any control over the changes (important increase of security talk and repressive measures). Finally, the renewal of the generations within the services of the PJJ weighs heavily on the modalities of transmission of professional know-how. The formerly homogeneous professional culture is fissuring, the confusion of the new recruits increasing and the educational referent losing its appeal. These temporalities (professional, institutional, generational) are certainly not new: the problem is rather their lack of articulation and the consequences of this situation on the managing of juvenile delinquents or endangered youth.
ISSN:1777-9006
2102-5878