Objective
To understand the practices and the experimental formation of the psychopedagogy of abnormal childhood in Colombia, carried out in the San Jose Juvenile Correctional Facility and Work School, Colombia, between 1914 and 1947. Methods and materials: qualitative study, of a historical-hermeneutic approach, using documentary research, and file heuristics of document heritage and institutional historiography within the study period.
Conclusions
The emergence of a new special education regime (medical and psychopedagogical) established an important change in the model of punishing reformatory to pedagogical intervention, influenced by crossing scientific doctrines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as the rule of normal and pathological, the degeneration theory and eugenics, for perfecting a modern subject who can be useful to itself and to society.
Correction of minors; abnormal childhood; degeneration; psychotechnology
