Concepções e práticas pedagógicas em classe hospitalar

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to understand the conceptions that guide pedagogical practices in Hospital Class. This is a case study that had as methodological reference the qualitative research. The study was conducted in a Hospital Class of a private hospital, located in the State of São Paulo (the hospital also receives patients from the single health system - SUS), the hospital class is specialized in attending pediatric oncology patients that due to health treatment are unable for a given (in) time to attend regular school. With the collaboration of pedagogues who work in this teaching environment, data collection was done through a semi-structured interview, with the aim of understanding the hospital-class conceptions that guide pedagogical practices. The results, although exploratory, showed that pedagogical practices are mostly based on humanization, from the perspective of education and care, with the purpose of helping to promote the integral development of hospitalized children and adolescents.