The role of school education and the pedagogue in hospital classes

The Hospital Class is an environment designed to serve children/adolescents who are in hospital, so that they are not affected in their school education, allowing them to continue their studies while hospitalised, preventing them from missing the school year. For pedagogues to work in hospital classrooms, they need to broaden their knowledge, because only then will they be able to work properly and specifically meet the needs of this audience. They need to have a humanistic vision, i.e. they need to prioritise the emotional and then insert learning into the hospital environment. Pedagogical practices in the hospital environment are linked to playfulness, because it is through playfulness that the hospital pedagogue gets closer to the child/adolescent, in order to motivate them to read, listen to stories, do school activities, and thus continue their studies even though they are unable to attend regular school.