O direito à educação e as classes hospitalares: discurso de gestores de um hospital-escola

Abstract

Based on the assumption that Hospital Care is a modality of teaching that is still little known, and the various problems that are being faced by Brazilian society today, there is a need to analyze the State's duty to provide educational services to children and adolescents who are hospitalized and, as a result, are unable to attend school. Based on this, this study has the objective of analyzing the factors that contribute to the (non) implantation of the Hospital Classes in the HULW, from the speeches of its managers. For this, we use the dialectical paradigm as a method of theoretical-analytical approach, being the exploratory-descriptive research, with a qualitative approach. As for the technical procedures, the research is bibliographical, documentary, field and case study. For the data collection, a semi-structured interview with objective and subjective questions was chosen. The study population consisted of HULW managers. In this sense, the sample was composed following the organization chart of the study hospital, in which four managers of the institution were chosen: a superintendent and three managers linked to the planning unit (a health care manager, a teaching and research manager, and a administrative manager). In the process of data analysis, the profile of the research participants was evaluated and the triggering questions were explored, which were divided into categories, subcategories, frequency and percentage. The data revealed that all managers see the possibility of executing educational practices within the institution, but most of them do not know the concept, the legislation and say that the hospital does not have the financial resources. In the same context, most managers consider that the hospital service performed by the HULW can assist in the educational process of hospitalized children and adolescents, as well as contribute to the process of recovery of the same, however the administrators have not participated, planned or discussed about the subject matter. Given this, we infer that the problems faced by children and adolescents are urgent to be solved and must be solved, thus avoiding the worsening of the situation and the resulting damages. The absence of the hospital class is a fact; therefore, we call attention to the need for a face-to-face discussion that culminates in the implementation / implementation of this strategy. We believe that the political will and the more humane and less assistential views of managers can be consolidated in the implementation of public policies instituted.