HOSPITAL CLASS IN PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY: ARTICULATING HEALTH AND EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION
hospital classes; pediatric oncology; acute lymphoid leukemia; neuropsychology.
According to current legislation, education is a stony right guaranteed by the Federal Constitution of 1988, and the State's duties are its guarantee without any distinction. However, several circumstances can interfere with the school attendance of children/adolescents, and among them, situations resulting from illness and hospitalization stand out. However, for these children, the educational right remains and is now offered through the so-called Hospital Classes (CH). In the scenario of childhood illness, cancer emerges as one of the pathologies that most affect children and has a significant prevalence and consequences, mainly resulting from treatment, in their quality of life, with acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) being the most common type of cancer. common in this population. In the last decade, studies point to the existence of significant neuropsychological deficits in children surviving ALL. In this context of attention to educational demands regarding the treatment conditions of this clinical group, the present research had the general objective of characterizing the policy of the hospital class in pediatric oncology in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, based on the presentation of four interdependent studies: (1) The policy of the hospital class in pediatric oncology in the state of RN: trajectory and profile; (2) Challenges and potential of the RN hospital class in the context of pediatric oncology: representations and experiences of teachers; (3) Conceptions about neuropsychology and its contributions in the practice of the pediatric oncology hospital class; and (4) Informative and practical booklet (Volumes 1 and 2) presenting the child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and its implications in the learning process. The research is characterized as an exploratory qualitative nature, carried out through the analysis of documents and individual semi-structured interviews with 9 professors of the pediatric oncology hospital class in the state of Rio Grande do Norte - RN. The results from the studies highlight the importance of the contributions of school neuropsychology to the practice of the educational team of CH in the context of pediatric oncology, considering that the specialized educational support for this clinical group also contributes as an intervention to possible educational difficulties that affect this population. These results are expected to contribute to the construction of new meanings for teaching practice in CH, impacting in terms of the quality of education offered to the clinical public of pediatric oncology and, consequently, on the quality of life of children and adolescents.