School care for the sick hospitalized child: State of the question

Abstract

With this Final Degree Project, we wanted to investigate a work that is unknown to many and not always sufficiently valued: the educational care provided to hospitalized children. We have teacher/s, students, classrooms, and to this cocktail we add a particular touch consisting of white coats, stethoscopes, drip feet, operating rooms, beds... and a very particular environment: A Health Center. We have left the walls of the schools and we have entered the health centers, discovering a work developed by professionals who have arrived there guided by the teaching vocation and love for children, developing unknown care that is strongly conditioned by the state of health that many of them are going through, often quite delicate. These children have the right to education, and that is the reason for their existence. Throughout the research, we have collected its origins, the objectives it pursues, the methodology used, and the legislation that contemplates it. To make the study more truthful, we have sneaked into these classrooms and we have met children who deserve to be cared for, to be comforted, and to be encouraged not to put aside their learning.