A classe hospitalar como um direito à educação: percepções das gestoras escolares de Palmas (TO)

Abstract

This research aims to understand how the hospital class for children in health treatment is understood by managers of school institutions in Palmas (TO), considering it as a right to education. Regarding the methodological construction, the research was developed from a qualitative approach study, of exploratory and descriptive nature and bibliographic, documentary and field. For data collection, the instrument used was a semi-structured interview conducted with eight managers of public-school institutions in Palmas (TO). The information obtained was systematized and analyzed from two categories: (i) the managers and the hospital class - first perceptions and (ii) the managers and the hospital context - benefits and challenges. The results revealed that part of these managers is still unaware of the premises of this educational care modality, however, it was evidenced that they understand the hospital class as a right to education of children in health treatment and that this right has been neglected in the capital of Tocantins, since its legal implementation, more than three decades ago. It was also possible to verify that the challenges in the implementation of a hospital class range from the absence of public policies to the little partnership between education and health, to the lack of initial and continued training. We conclude that the results that the implementation of hospital classes can bring to the population are numerous, since, in addition to guaranteeing the right of access to education, which enables the integral formation of the hospitalized child, it provides an opportunity for the continuity of formal schooling and success in the reinsertion of this child to regular school upon his return.