Regard sur l’activité d’accompagnement dans le domaine de l’insertion des jeunes

• Main Author: Maryse Bournel-Bosson
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ecole Nationale de Protection Judiciaire de la Jeunesse 2011-12-01
• Series: Sociétés et Jeunesses en Difficulté
• Subjects: Activity; oriented activity; professional genre; support
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sejed/7232

In France,young people with low qualifications are mainly supported toward professional integration by counselors working in local government agencies. After tracing the successive stages of the institutionalization of these agencies from a historical perspective, the article specifies the requirements and expectations guiding the counselors’ activity. Using as a basis the concepts of the Clinic of activity, notably that of “oriented activity”, the writer then proceeds by drawing both on her own sustained experience of leading activity analysis groups. She identifies a few components of the “professional genre” of local government counselors and distinguishes the major issues examined during their collective analysis of activity. Finally, the article concludes by stressing the need for these professionals to diversify frameworks so they can develop their professional genre.