De l’enfance victime de la guerre à l’enfance inadaptée. Questions d’échelles et de classifications : le rôle expert des SEPEG dans la sortie de guerre des enfants européens (1944-1951)

This article proposes to question, through a diachronic approach, the category of “childhood victim of war”, reactivated in the post-World War II period. The aim is to see how it is constructed and declined on epistemological, etiological and scientific levels, but also on the side of professional p...

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Main Author: Samuel Boussion
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ecole Nationale de Protection Judiciaire de la Jeunesse
Series:Sociétés et Jeunesses en Difficulté
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sejed/11581
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description This article proposes to question, through a diachronic approach, the category of “childhood victim of war”, reactivated in the post-World War II period. The aim is to see how it is constructed and declined on epistemological, etiological and scientific levels, but also on the side of professional practices at a time when a category derived from psychiatric nosography is being established, particularly in France: the so-called “maladjusted childhood”. In this field, the “Semaines internationales d’étude pour l’enfance victime de la guerre” (SEPEG) – International Study Weeks for Childhood Victim of War -, founded in 1944 in Switzerland, offered an interesting observatory of the role of childhood experts after the war, until their dissolution in 1951.The aim is to shed light on the construction of “expert” knowledge on childhood by the actors, but also on its reception, appropriation and translation, in short, its dissemination, by professionals in social work, medicine and education. This categorization constitutes a step in the development of an expertise and the creation of a consensus through international meetings. This is not done without clashes or debate, for example, on the occasion of the definition of war trauma in children and the recognition of the analytical corpus. Finally, this article addresses the production of knowledge and professional practices around the figure of the child of war, seen through the prism of multiple hybridizations.
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spelling doaj.art-f451c9074b984b4bb84500b7660dfdee2024-02-13T13:49:40ZengEcole Nationale de Protection Judiciaire de la JeunesseSociétés et Jeunesses en Difficulté1953-837528De l’enfance victime de la guerre à l’enfance inadaptée. Questions d’échelles et de classifications : le rôle expert des SEPEG dans la sortie de guerre des enfants européens (1944-1951)Samuel BoussionThis article proposes to question, through a diachronic approach, the category of “childhood victim of war”, reactivated in the post-World War II period. The aim is to see how it is constructed and declined on epistemological, etiological and scientific levels, but also on the side of professional practices at a time when a category derived from psychiatric nosography is being established, particularly in France: the so-called “maladjusted childhood”. In this field, the “Semaines internationales d’étude pour l’enfance victime de la guerre” (SEPEG) – International Study Weeks for Childhood Victim of War -, founded in 1944 in Switzerland, offered an interesting observatory of the role of childhood experts after the war, until their dissolution in 1951.The aim is to shed light on the construction of “expert” knowledge on childhood by the actors, but also on its reception, appropriation and translation, in short, its dissemination, by professionals in social work, medicine and education. This categorization constitutes a step in the development of an expertise and the creation of a consensus through international meetings. This is not done without clashes or debate, for example, on the occasion of the definition of war trauma in children and the recognition of the analytical corpus. Finally, this article addresses the production of knowledge and professional practices around the figure of the child of war, seen through the prism of multiple hybridizations.https://journals.openedition.org/sejed/11581childhoodhistoryway out of the Warmedico pedagogicalexpertise
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De l’enfance victime de la guerre à l’enfance inadaptée. Questions d’échelles et de classifications : le rôle expert des SEPEG dans la sortie de guerre des enfants européens (1944-1951)
Sociétés et Jeunesses en Difficulté
childhood
history
way out of the War
medico pedagogical
expertise
title De l’enfance victime de la guerre à l’enfance inadaptée. Questions d’échelles et de classifications : le rôle expert des SEPEG dans la sortie de guerre des enfants européens (1944-1951)
title_full De l’enfance victime de la guerre à l’enfance inadaptée. Questions d’échelles et de classifications : le rôle expert des SEPEG dans la sortie de guerre des enfants européens (1944-1951)
title_fullStr De l’enfance victime de la guerre à l’enfance inadaptée. Questions d’échelles et de classifications : le rôle expert des SEPEG dans la sortie de guerre des enfants européens (1944-1951)
title_full_unstemmed De l’enfance victime de la guerre à l’enfance inadaptée. Questions d’échelles et de classifications : le rôle expert des SEPEG dans la sortie de guerre des enfants européens (1944-1951)
title_short De l’enfance victime de la guerre à l’enfance inadaptée. Questions d’échelles et de classifications : le rôle expert des SEPEG dans la sortie de guerre des enfants européens (1944-1951)
title_sort de l enfance victime de la guerre a l enfance inadaptee questions d echelles et de classifications le role expert des sepeg dans la sortie de guerre des enfants europeens 1944 1951
topic childhood
history
way out of the War
medico pedagogical
expertise
url https://journals.openedition.org/sejed/11581
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