The ‘truth’ about idiocy: revisiting files of children in the Dutch ‘School for Idiots’ in the nineteenth century

Autor:	Annemieke van Drenth
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Child care media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Authorization Child custody 06 humanities and the arts 050905 science studies 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Special education Education Intervention (law) History and Philosophy of Science Case records Law 060302 philosophy Institution Sociology 0509 other social sciences media_common
Zdroj:	History of Education History of Education, 45(4), 477-491
ISSN:	1464-5130 0046-760X
DOI:	10.1080/0046760x.2016.1177123
Popis:	In 1855 the Revd C. E. Van Koetsveld established his ‘School for Idiots’ in The Hague. Within two years, he had also opened a boarding facility that accommodated many of his pupils. Legal regulations demanded authorisation for a child to be placed in this asylum. This procedure included a questionnaire on the condition of the child. The paper discusses the analysis of data included in the files of 187 children admitted to Van Koetsveld’s institution between 1857 and 1873. In an earlier examination of these data, the author was intrigued about what could be inferred from these data. In this paper the same question is addressed from a new angle by applying the theoretical and methodological perspective of ‘praxeography’. This approach reveals the logic behind the process of inscribing characteristics on vulnerable children. Moreover, the analysis shows how children’s inner worlds were opened up for further examination and social intervention.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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