Aprendizagem significativa na pedagogia hospitalar : uma concepção ampliada de aula

Abstract

The hospitalization process in the lives of children and adolescents causes moments of distress, as their daily lives are changed. In this sense, hospitals are expanding their work group, sharing their space with multidisciplinary teams, seeking to provide humanized care. The pedagogical work in these teams contributes entirely to the regular schooling process of hospitalized individuals. Therefore, this work seeks to report an experience developed from the extension project “Studying, no matter the place!” which articulated actions between the Education Center (CEDU) of the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) and a private hospital in the city of Maceió, which provides beds in the pediatric ward for the Unified Health System (SUS). The purpose of the article is to present how pedagogical care takes place in the hospital context, its educational practices, aiming to portray a new look at the concept of class in the non-school space, based on meaningful learning. For the discussion, we used as a theoretical reference the studies of Ausubel (1980), Fonseca (2008), and Rogers (2001). The results identify the relevance of pedagogical work in hospitals, as it collaborated with the adaptation of the new treatment routine, made it possible for children and adolescents to continue exercising the curricular contents learned in regular schools, and provided quality of life through meaningful learning respecting limits and valuing the prior knowledge of each apprentice.