As possibilidades da actividade pedagógica como tratamento sócio-afectivo da criança hospitalizada

• Main Author: Rejane de S. Fontes
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade do Minho 2006-01-01
• Series: Revista Portuguesa de Educação
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37419105

Thinking about the teaching acting in hospitals has been a delicate question in the recent, although controversial, discussion about the teachers practice in pediatrics infirmaries. The aim of this study is to understand the role of education in the health of the child who must remain in hospital, analyzing the teaching action in the public hospital (Antônio Pedro University Hospital/Niterói, RJ). As methodological approach we made use of participant observation of situations that involved interactions between children, child and adult and the interaction between child and the environment. The analysis categories were: the language, the plaything, the emotion and the knowledge, supported by the theorical references proposed by Wallon and Vygotsky. How can education contribute to the health of the child in hospital? We found out that the education makes possible the child signifies its life and the hospital space wheres in, through an attentive and sensitive pedagogical listening which collaborates to the ransom of the subjectiveness and self-esteem of the childish, and thus, contributes to the welfare and the health of the child in hospital.