Citation

Moulin-Barman S. Etudes sur la Mort 2007; 131(1): 27-53.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007)

DOI

10.3917/eslm.131.0027

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

When a teacher is confronted with death at the school, he/she is the one to welcome the former reactions of the children. He/she has thus a consequent role to play in listening, observing and preventing the complications of the child's and consequently of the becoming adult's mourning. Due to professional practice holds he/she is very occupied and cannot improvise himself/herself as a specialist in mourning, nor psychologist, but some knowledge can be useful for him/her. According to collected testimonies, teachers, even if they have admirable ideas and private means, actually feel alone and penniless when the death of a pupil, colleague, relative or other occurs. Teachers can draw from this support (for nursery and primary school) the elements which they wish according to their own personality and diversities of the situations. It thus seemed paramount and beneficial to touch the mediums of training in education and to directly train the future teachers to the possibility of death in their school, as well as the teachers in place by he means of the annual courses of continuous training. In this teaching aid, I approached the role and the place of the school and the teacher, the designs of child and teenager death, the course and the stages of mourning, the impact of mourning on the schooling, the characteristics at the time of a suicide, the pre mourning inside the class, he consequences and the difficulties for the teacher, death opposed to multiculturalism within the classes. Several testimonies and elements of reflection decorate the document. The second part is more practical and answers to concrete questions: when a classmate dies, the news, the protocol of intervention in the school in mourning, how to help and accompany the pupils and teenagers in mourning, the rites (the participation at the funeral, the object of eritage, the desk, the various festivals). I approached the importance of putting pupils at the heart of ideas and decisions, the capacity of listening, the loss of a familiar animal, how to approach death in class, how to answer the pupils' questions, children's literature. Then various examples of workshops to perform in class are proposed (invention of a tale, creation of a card deck of feelings, modelling clay, mándala...). The richness of this subject is inexhaustible and the teachers can create other tools. © L'Esprit du Temps.

Language: fr

Keywords

School; Death; Teachers; Support; Class; Mourning; Assistance; Pupils in mourning