Schreiber Bound to Silence

Experiences with SOS Children's Villages
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-7065-5867-9
Verlag: Studien Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Deutsch, 244 Seiten

"I had the misfortune of not growing up in an ideal children's village family. It is very important to me that my experiences are made public so that what has happened is acknowledged, because in the past no one believed it and nobody did anything about it."

This book deals with the violence, abuse and injury experienced by children and young people in facilities run by SOS Children's Villages Austria. Horst Schreiber analyses the structural factors in the history of this organisation which made repression and violence possible. The care concept which was introduced when the organisation was founded reproduced a family situation with the traditional gender hierarchy. The village director represented paternal order and sanctioning powers, the SOS mothers with their motherly care had to provide a healing power for the abandoned child.
Even if the out-of-home care in SOS Children's Villages differed in a positive sense from that in a home or foster family, it nevertheless appears that numerous children found they had "fallen out of the nest" a second time. In the case of sexual violence against children and young people, for a long time SOS Children's Villages was at pains to keep this secret in order to protect its good reputation. Many signs of abuse were systematically ignored.

Read more: http://www.erinnern.at/bundeslaender/tirol/unterrichtsmaterial/dem-schweigen-verpflichtet.-erfahrungen-mit-sos-kinderdorf

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schreiber, Horst

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hepburn, Lynda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Nichtregierungsorganisation (NGOs)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Familie, Kinder, Jugendliche
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Title;4
3;Copyright;5
4;Preface;8
4.1;Waltraud Kannonier-Finster, Meinrad Ziegler: Family structures, pedagogy and rationality;8
5;Introduction;17
6;The SOS Children's Village concept;29
6.1;The four principles of the SOS Children's Village – family-based care versus a large institutional upbringing;29
6.2;Education – Career choice – Aftercare;60
7;Different perceptions;75
7.1;Strange and threatening: The tendency to exclude SOS children;75
7.2;The desire for a "normal" family;77
7.3;Disappointed longing;79
8;The story of Gerda, Franziska and Johanna Sillober: A typical cover-up;84
9;Medical justification: The Hinterbrühl Special Education Centre;98
9.1;Monika Fitz: pushed out of the nest;98
9.2;The founding and function of the Special Education Centre;104
9.3;Interaction with the children in the centre;108
9.4;The rejection and discharge of children;119
9.5;The expert assessment reports by Hans Asperger;122
9.6;From the Special Education Centre to the Special Education and Therapy Centre;133
10;The structural causes of violence;137
10.1;Authoritarian structures;137
10.2;Training deficiencies;142
10.3;Catholicism and sexual taboos;152
11;Summing up;178
12;Appendix;195
12.1;The development of SOS Children's Villages Austria/International;195
12.2;Endnotes;199
12.3;Archives;219
12.4;Bibliography;221

Über Autor(innen)

The author
Dr. Horst Schreiber, lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck, leads erinnern.at in Tyrol.