Bereavement and caregiving: emerging vulnerabilities in the school and university environment?

While schooling for sick students has been the subject of structured guidelines since the 1990s, support for young people faced with the illness, death and bereavement of a loved one remains poorly institutionalized within schools and is not the subject of any comprehensive policy, despite the advent of the inclusive school paradigm and growing attention to students with special educational needs.

As a place of life and a space for identity construction, school and university are also so for young carers and bereaved young people. Yet while recent demographic and psychological research has quantified the number of young orphans and young carers under the age of 25, helping to put these invisible groups, too often associated with the tragedies of the past century, on the agenda, the experiences of these young people and the impact of their caring and/or bereavement situation on schooling remain insufficiently known, particularly through the prism of qualitative research.

Postulating that bereavement and caring are emerging vulnerabilities in a school and university space beset by growing social demands, this interdisciplinary study day aims to highlight research exploring the experience within the school and university space of these singular situations of confrontation with finitude.

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Contact Morgane MESPLEDE: morgane.mesplede@gmail.com